Formerly the Cock and Pynot Inn and now a museum, Revolution House in Whittington, near Chesterfield, was the place where the Earl of Devonshire, the Earl of Danby and a local nobleman John D'Arcy, met and planned to overthrow the Catholic King James 11 and to offer the throne to his daughter and her Dutch husband William. William and Mary landed at Torbay in November 1688. The North and the Midlands rose in support and James fled to France.