The population is largely in and around Chatsworth House and is considered to be too low to justify a parish council.

The domain was held for the Crown at the Conquest by William Peveril; passed to the Leches and the Agards.

In the reign of Edward III, William de Furneaux granted lands in Chatsworth, Beeley and Chelmorton to Godfrey Foljambe.

A quadrangular mansion, defended by towers, was founded on it by Sir William, and completed by his widow, the famous Countess of Shrewsbury; was the prison, for several years, of Mary Queen of Scots; was the prison also of Marshal Tallard, taken at Blenheim; was held alternately by the parliamentarians and the royalists in the civil wars; and was, for some time, the abode of Hobbes of Malmsbury, as family tutor, and the place where he wrote his ' ' Wonders of the Peak;" but has entirely disappeared.

The present mansion was chiefly built in 1687-1706, by the first Duke of Devonshire, after designs by Talman and Wren...John Bartholomew's Gazetteer of the British Isles says[2] - Chatsworth, par[ish]., N[orth].