National parks and recreation

SET in a spectacular natural amphitheatre bounded to the north by Derbyshire’s Peak District National Park and to the west by romantic Dove Dale, historic, Grade II*-listed Barton Hall at Church Broughton, 11 miles from Derby, was the centrepiece of ‘one of central England’s finest residential estates’ when it came to the market through Humberts in 1994. Known then as the Barton Blount estate, it comprised the 18th-century hall, its magnificent gardens and 506 acres of land, including a let farm, a stud, gallops, pasture and woodland in a landscape little changed in a thousand years. The asking price was £2.75 million.

Known in the 13th century as Barton-Bakepuiz after the Norman family who held the manor at that