Photo : Whaley Bridge.
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Lyme Park, Disley, Stockport, Cheshire SK12 2NX. Tel: 01663 762023.
One of the grandest buildings in Cheshire, Lyme Park was originally
a Tudor house and transformed into an Italianate palace by the
Venetian architect Leoni. The house is set in several hundred
acres of parkland and woodland where deer abound. It is bordered
by a sunken Dutch garden, rose gardens and a great conservatory
set above an attractive lake. National Trust. Charges apply.
About 3 miles west of Whaley Bridge.
The Chestnut Centre, Castleton
Road (A625) Chapel-en-le-Frith,
High Peak Derbyshire SK23 0QS. Tel: 01298 814099. Conservation
Park, Otter Haven & Owl Sanctuary - houses Europe's largest
collection of multi -specied otters & owls including Britain's
only pair of giant otters. About 3 miles east of Whaley Bridge.
Torrs Millennium Walkway, New Mills, Derbyshire. The walkway
provides a route through the previously impassable gritstone
gorge at Torrs, New Mills. The gorge is an area of exceptional
natural beauty and unique industrial archaeological heritage.
An elevated 160m long cantilevered walkway provides the important
‘missing link’ for the Mid Shires Way, allowing people
to walk the whole scenic, 275 mile trail. About 3 miles north
of Whaley Bridge.
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