The market: If you want to stay close to home, it doesn’t get much better than Chatsworth House. Set against the backdrop of the magnificent Peak District National Park, amidst its own 1,888 acres of parkland, this stunning Grade I listed stately home has 25 vast, antique-filled rooms to explore. Seventeen generations of the Devonshire family have lived there, and at Christmas there are over 100 market stalls there selling gifts and some of the same pretty trinkets adorning the fir trees that line its halls at that time of year. ‘year. No fewer than 20,000 Christmas baubles were hung and 48 Christmas trees erected. The market offers live music, which you can watch with a mulled wine or German beer in hand, or while munching on a gourmet burger, sausages, hot pork bun or churros. Festive Blighty at its best.