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It is at the point where the River Wye flows into the River Derwent and prospered from mills on both. Notable features are the bridge over the River Derwent and the Peacock Hotel , originally built in 1652 as a manor house by John Stevenson, agent to Lady Manners , whose family crest bearing a peacock gives it its name. Both Longfellow and Landseer are said to have stayed there. Nearby is Chatsworth House home of the Duke And Duchess Of Devonshire . It was the site of an extensive Motive Power Depot and Marshalling Yard , the first being built by the Manchester, Buxton, Matlock And Midlands Junction Railway with a railway station designed by Joseph Paxton in 1849 . This was replaced by a new station when the line was extended northwards in 1862 . It was frequently used by King Edward VII when he visited Chatsworth House. The original station became a goods depot until 1968 when it was used as a contractor's yard. It then became the centrepiece of a shopping developent. EXTERNAL LINKS
http://www.cressbrook.co.uk/bakewell/rowsley.htm
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