Britain's Best Buildings

Hardwick Hall (2x3)

: 17, 2006

Dan Cruickshank explores the history of Derbyshire's Hardwick Hall, the unspoilt Elizabethan manor built in the late 16th century by Bess, Countess of Shrewsbury, who amassed fabulous riches in a series of judicious marriages and survived one of the messiest and most public divorce cases ever seen in Britain.