Monument record 1633/2/0 - Lyme Park

<1> Lancashire & Cheshire Antiquarian Society, 1883 -, Transactions of the Lancashire & Cheshire Antiquarian Society, 20/21-2 Harrison W 1902 (Journal/Periodical). SCH3293.

Lyme Park. Piers Legh was granted the lands of Handley in Macclesfield Forest in 1397, in recognition of his father-in-law's services at Crescy. In 1466 the park was described as 'a fair park, surrounded by palings & divers fields & hays (hedged enclosures)'. The park seems to have been well stocked with deer. Webb describes it as a 'large & spacious park, richly stored with red & fallow deer' .

<2> Whitaker J, 1892, The Deer Parks and Paddocks of England, /29 (Book). SCH3117.

An extensive deer park, extending to 1700 acres, enclosed by a fence & a stone wall, containing 170 red deer & 35 fallow deer.

<3> English Heritage, 2001, Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest, 1985 (Report). SCH2822.

Lyme Park, a deer park of c.550ha enclosed by the present drystone wall in 1665. Woodland in separate areas on most boundaries of estate with extensive open parkland and moorland between and Park Lake, originally a fishpond, 300m NW of hall.

<4> University of Manchester Archaeological Unit, 1994, Lyme Park, North West Water Trunk Main, R2067 (Client Report). SCH4304.

Watching brief undertaken in October and early November 1994 during the laying of a 315mm diameter trunk main through Lyme Park, from the Treatment Works north of Horse Coppice Reservoir (SJ 9685 8385), northwards through Disley. The line of a ditch was recorded near the park gate and possibly forms part of the medieval park boundary although no dating evidence was found to confirm this. Also there was no evidence of a bank on the outer side of the ditch as might be expected, although the ditch had been back-filled with a layer of sandy loam which may have been the remains of such a bank. It seems likely that this in-filling occurred when the gateway and its associated walls were built.