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The north front of Riber Castle, near Matlock, Derbyshire, 1880s.
The north front of Riber Castle, near Matlock, Derbyshire, 1880s. An illustration taken from Mrs Smedley's Manual of Practical Hydrotherapy. Riber Castle, sitting on the hill high above Matlock, overlooks much of the surrounding area. It was built by John Smedley, a local textile manufacturer and founder of the Smedley's hydros in Matlock, between 1862 and 1868. It was designed by Smedley and built as a residence for him and his family, in local stone. John Smedley died in 1874, but his wife, Caroline, continued to live in the house until her own death in 1892. The house remained unoccupied for many years after this, hence its present ruinous state, but the surrounding land was acquired by a group of zoologists in the 1960s, who developed it as a nature reserve for rare British and European wildlife. Unfortunately the nature reserve has since closed.
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AR930165
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Purpose
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4004px × 2631px
Photo Credit
HIP / Art Resource, NY
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19th century
Architecture
B&W
B/W
Black & White
Black and white
Britain
British
building
BUILDINGS
country
COUNTRY HOUSE
derbyshire
England
English
Engraving
Exterior
Garden
geographical feature
Geography
Hill
hilltop
JOHN
John Smedley
LOCATION
Monochrome
NEMPR Picture the Past
NINETEENTH CENTURY
OUTSIDE
People
Picture the Past
Riber Castle
Smedley
STATELY HOME
TGN
Tower
Victorian