Lyme House

Any trip to Lyme Park near Stockport, Cheshire must include a look around the house and gardens here. Enjoy this wonderful view of what is in reality the back of the house. Behind me gardens and woodland walks abound and it is even populated by deer.

The house dates from the latter part of the 16th century. Unlike many great estates, Lyme was a much-loved home to generations of one family and their valued and loyal workers. Living through England's most troubled times, the Legh family hung on to their home and (mostly) their heads, and this impact can still be seen across the estate today. The largest estate in Cheshire, Lyme has been designed on a grand scale over a number of centuries. It has been a place to receive occasional royal guests, take friends hunting or to entertain on a lavish scale.

The exterior of the hall was used as Pemberley, the seat of Mr Darcy, in the 1995 BBC adaptation of Jane Austen's novel Pride and Prejudice. This lake being the one showing the dashing Mr Darcy swimming.

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