Lyme House....Gardens and Park to follow...

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The largest house in Cheshire, Lyme House stands in 1400 acres of beautiful parkland overlooking the Cheshire Plains and Manchester

The estate was granted to Sir Thomas Danyers in 1346 and passed to the Legh family through marriage in 1388, it remained in the family for over 400yrs and was given to the National Trust in 1946, now I could go into the history of the family but would take far too long, it does make good reading if you wish to while away a few minutes researching on the web, they have a very interesting past with some very famous ancestors…I have added a couple of interesting bits though….

Inner couryard and steps into the house.

Entrance leading to the gardens…

Think thats covered the various views from all sides, now the inside…

I know him up there, guess we’ll catch up somewhere along the route…

Oh there he is again, now that look on his face said, “surely you’ve finished by now”LOL….
lol….

The schoolroom, the children visiting were allowed to dress up and actually play with everything in this room


Onwards and upwards…
Another room inviting to the younger visitor, housing the belongings of a 19th century member of the family Thomas Legh, he was a traveller, collector and Egyptologist who in 1811 at the age of 19yrs had set sale for Greece bringing back treasures from the Temple of Apollo, then onto Egypt and then up the Nile to Ibrim in Nubai, the furthest any European had ever travelled up the Nile in those days…

How did he manage to go from the luxury of this house to that little tent, mind you I didn’t blame him because I find the bedrooms dark and forbidding……..

The library contains some very old manuscripts and books some of which have been at Lyme since they were first published during the 15-17th century, one of the most famous and oldest books in the NT’s collection is the sole survivor of the earliest known edition of “The Sarum Missal the prayer book for the most significant pre-Reformation English Mass” its the first book in which Caxton used his iconic personal device.
This book can be proved to have been owned by the Legh family since 1508…

The kitchens weren’t open to the public so we had to make do with a photo…

This visitor is being very good, quietly waiting the return of its owner who I think was one of the guides…
A quick peep into the chapel…

Back outside and a look to see what the time is, also have to find this chappie , which I did through my viewfinder, guess he wanted a rest………

Always a good idea to keep ones mobiles charged

Turned out it was lunchtime, that took ages, hope I haven’t bored you silly, anyone want a cuppa…..

• 27 Sep, 2016
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