Lyme Handley, sometimes known as ''Lyme'', is a small

civil parish In England, a civil parish is a type of Parish (administrative division), administrative parish used for Local government in England, local government. It is a territorial designation which is the lowest tier of local government below district ...

in between

Disley Disley is a village and civil parish in Cheshire, England. It is located on the edge of the Peak District in the Goyt valley, south of Stockport and close to the county boundary with Derbyshire at New Mills. The population at the 2011 Census ...

and Stockport, in the unitary authority of Cheshire East and the ceremonial county of

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, England.Macclesfield Borough Website.
Accessed 21 April 2007. According to the 2001 census, it had a population of 151.Official 2001 Census Figures.
Accessed: 20 August 2007. It is also greenbelt area on the suburbs of

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, attracting many visitors in the summer months for walking and picnics and in winter for sledging. The most famous feature of Lyme is Lyme Park, a Tudor house with gardens created in the 1720s. This was made most famous when it featured as Mr Darcy's house in the BBC dramatisation of ''

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''. The three-storey house has of well-maintained

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gardens and is also open to visitors for guided tours of the house, which contains a large collection of English clocks. The rest of the area consists of small farms which were all once part of the Handley estate but parcelled off at the turn of the 20th century. These mostly farm sheep with some cattle. In the past Lyme Handley had its own flax mill, providing a use for a crop other than grass that could be grown on a relatively infertile soil type; although the mill remains, it is no longer functional.

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Civil parishes in Cheshire Towns and villages of the Peak District {{Cheshire-geo-stub

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