Historic sites

Lyme

United Kingdom Cheshire East Disley

Lyme
Photo: Photograph by Mike Peel (www.mikepeel.net)., CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

A grand house with an Italianate front set in a huge deer park on the edge of the Peak District. It found fame as Pemberley in the 1995 BBC Pride and Prejudice, where Mr Darcy emerged from the lake.


The house holds clocks, carvings and a Book of Hours from 1500. Walk up to The Cage, a hunting tower with views over Manchester, and look out for red deer.

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