Map: Burghley's Lancashire Map, c.1579

Catholic neighbours

Can you find the largest building? It is the castle within the park just to the right of centre on the map - roll your mouse over the map to see it more clearly.

This building is actually a castle in its own hunting park, and if you look very carefully you can see that it was where the Earl of Derby lived. It has no red mark on it, but you can see he had many Catholic neighbours. Why do you think Queen Elizabeth would probably have been pleased to see that the Earl of Derby was not a Roman Catholic?