Hardwick Hall, Derbyshire (Accredited Museum)
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Uniquely among Elizabethan houses, Hardwick retains the textures of its original decoration - huge Flemish tapestries, Persian table-carpets, painted wall-hangings, coloured plaster friezes, inlaid furniture, rows of original portraits, and the finest collection of 16th and early 17th century needlework in the world. Many can still be identified in the detailed inventory that Bess had compiled in 1601.