Lyme Park
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Address – Disley
Stockport
Cheshire
SK12 2NX
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| Phone | 01663 762023 |
| Opening times |
25 Mar– 31 Oct open every day, the rest of the year, weekends only
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| Collection/special features | The Grinling Gibbons carving all over the house seems to spill into the garden, where a highly formal and decorated style gives the visitor much to examine. |
| Dog friendly? | Under close control and only in park (in some areas on leads only) |
| Child friendly? | Children enjoy the tower and deer park, and the sunken parterre is always impressive |
| Description |
This 17 acre Victorian garden boasts impressive bedding schemes, a sunken parterre, an Edwardian rose garden, Jekyll-style herbaceous borders, lake, a ravine garden and Wyatt conservatory. While each of these is individually good, the garden can have a bit of an effect of horticultural indigestion! It is surrounded by a medieval deer park, with herds of red and fallow deer, covering almost 1400 acres of moorland, woodland and parkland and containing an early eighteenth century hunting tower. Lyme Park appeared as 'Pemberley' in the BBC's adaptation of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. |
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Lyme Park photograph by mikecolvin82, used under a creative commons licence
