Pemberley is the country estate owne by Fitzwilliam Darcy, the male protagonist in Jane Austen's novel Pride and Prejudice. It is located in Derbyshire and believed by some to be based on Chatsworth House, near Chesterfield in Derbyshire — and the exterior scenes at Pemberley for Joe Wright's 2005 film version of Pride and Prejudice, starring Keira Knightley and Matthew Macfadyen, were in fact filmed at Chatsworth. However, Chatsworth was mentioned in the novel as one of the great houses Elizabeth and her aunt and uncle visited before Pemberley during their visit north, thus marking a distinction between Pemberley and it.