Conservation Area: Lyme Park Conservation Area (188)

Lyme Park splits into three main character areas: The inner park comprising the area surrounding the house and its gardens. It includes those areas which received most of the design changes of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The outer park comprising much of the remaining area of the original parkland (excluding Park Moor) enclosed in the sixteenth century. It surrounds the hall and contains the grassland once grazed by livestock, and now deer. The moor, an area of open moorland comprising Park Moor and Cluse Hay. Views and vistas have been an important part of the park’s early development and design. Trees and woodland were planted to frame them, and buildings were located specifically to take advantage of them, and to become the focal point themselves of such views. Several of these long distant vistas have been lost due to tree planting and unchecked growth over the years.