Hugh Wood (landowner)

Hugh Wood notably owned Swanwick Hall (a villa build by architect, Joseph Pickford) from 1772 onwards, and knew many important Derbyshire people at the time.

Hugh's brother, John, became vicar of Chesterfield in 1765 and the domestic chaplain to William Cavendish, the 5th Duke Of Devonshire, his home in Chatsworth, whilst Richard died young in 1759.

Hugh married Sarah Rossington in 1769,[1] and in 1771, Wood commissioned Derbyshire architect, Joseph Pickford, to build a new villa, south east of Swanwick crossroads.

It would be completed in 1772, the house would be three storeys high, speculated to have been five bays wide, and would be of handmade red brick, and minimal stone dressings made from gritstone, coming from the Horsley Castle Quarry, Coxbench.

[1][3] In 1778, Wood served on the grand jury for the Court of quarter sessions, including assessing prisoners for some capital offences.