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The Orangery

Lyme Hall is part sixteenth, part seventeenth, and part eighteenth century and is the largest house in Cheshire. The grandeur of the interior includes ceiling paintings by Leoni, a substantial collection of English clocks, priceless Mortlake tapestries, as well as plaster casts of Greek friezes showing battle scenes, brought here by Thomas Legh, and Grinling Gibbon's woodcarvings. Impressive gardens and parkland which hosts red and fallow deer, as well as a sunken "Dutch" formal garden and lake.

The surrounding parkland is nearly 1400 acres and gives good views of the Pennine Hills and the Cheshire Plain.

The estate has an Orangery built by Wyatt. Lyme Park was the family home of the Leghs for 600 years, until it was taken over in 1946 to be owned by the National trust and part-financed by Stockport Borough Council.

 

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