Description
Lyme Handley, a village and a township in Prestbury parish, Cheshire, near the Peak Forest Canal, 1 mile SW of Disley station on the Manchester and Buxton section of the L. & N.W.R., and 7 miles NNE of Macclesfield. Post town, Stockport; money order and telegraph office, Whaley Bridge. Acreage of township, 3747; population, 251. The manor has been in the hands of the Legh family since the time of Richard II. Lyme Hall is a noble quadrangular mansion, partly Tudoi-y partly by Leoni, contains a picture gallery, and commands a very fine view. It stands in a park well stocked with red deer and a herd of the wild white cattle similar to those which are preserved at Chillingham.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
