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“Lyme Park is one of England’s great estates, with a lavishly decorated house and fine gardens. Its principal feature is Lyme Hall, a Grade I listed Elizabethan manor house that was the ancestral seat of the Legh family for nearly 600 years. The house is finely furnished, and particularly notable for its Mortlake tapestries, wood carvings by Grinling Gibbons, and a collection of English clocks. When Margaret Legh went to live there in 1398 it was probably just a simple hunting lodge. Her grandfather had been given the property in reward for his courage fighting alongside the Black Prince at the Battle of Crecy. By the 16th century, the Leghs had made Lyme their main home and, a century later, the Venetian architect Giacomo Leoni modernised Lyme Park Hall in the style of an Italian palace. Peter Legh the Eighth bought most of the fine furniture that can now be seen at the Hall, but after a family tragedy the house became neglected. Salvation came in the form of Thomas Legh, an intrepid explorer and collector whose pioneering journey through Egypt and up the Nile was well documented in 1816. He decided to give the outdated family home a completely new lease of life, and commissioned Lewis Wyatt to undertake the task. In 1942, the new heir, the third Lord Newton, decided the family could no longer afford the upkeep, and gave Lyme with 1400 acres of land to the National Trust. ”
Disley, Cheshire
SK12 2NX
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HOUSE: 23 Mar–30 Oct, Mon, Tue, Fri, Sat, Sun 1-5
PARK: 1 Apr–14 Oct, Daily 8 - 8:30 & 15 Oct–29 Feb, Daily 8-6
Adult: £7
Child: £3.50
Family: £17.50
See more Historic Homes in North of England:
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- Beningbrough Hall & Gardens
- Brodsworth Hall & Gardens
- Burton Constable
- Cherryburn (Thomas Bewick’s Birthplace)
- Cragside
- Dalemain
- Dove Cottage & Wordsworth Museum
- Dunham Massey
- East Riddlesden
- Fairfax House
- Fountains Abbey & Studley Royal
- Gawthorpe Hall
- George Stephenson’s Birthplace
- Harewood House & Bird Garden
- Hill Top
- Holker Hall & Gardens
- Hutton in the Forest
- Leighton Hall
- Levens Hall
- Little Moreton Hall
- Lyme Park
- Merchant’s Adventurer’s Hall
- Newby Hall & Gardens
- Nunnington Hall
- Ormesby Hall
- Paxton House and Country Park
- Rufford Old Hall
- Rydal Mount & Gardens
- Speke Hall
- Tatton Park
- Townend
- Wallington
- Washington Old Hall
- Wordsworth House
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