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In the 1500s the Harpur family owned many estates in Derbyshire and in 1622 they acquired lands at Calke. The house as it stands today was built by the Harpur Crewe family in 1704 on the site of a former 12th century priory, which had been the home of a small satellite group of monks connected to a larger order in Repton. When the seventh baronet, a shy withdrawn character, inherited the property, it was to take on the indelible stamp of eccentricity for which it is well known today.