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Lyme Park

Home of the Legh family for 600 years, Lyme is one of Cheshire’s biggest country houses with superb gardens which display year-round colour.

Originally a Tudor house, Lyme was transformed by the Venetian architect Leoni into an Italianate palace. Some of the Elizabethan interiors survive and contrast dramatically with later rooms. The state rooms are adorned with Mortlake tapestries, Grinling Gibbons wood-carvings and an important collection of English clocks.

The garden is surrounded by a medieval deer park of almost 566ha (1,400 acres) of moorland, woodland and parkland, containing an early 18th-century hunting tower. Lyme appeared as ‘Pemberley’ in the BBC’s adaptation of Jane Austen’s novel Pride and Prejudice, and also featured in the recent Granada production of The Forsyte Saga.