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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Lyme Handley like this:
LYME-HANDLEY, a township, with a village, in Prestbury parish, Cheshire; near the Peak Forest canal and the Buxton railway, 7 miles NNE of Macclesfield. Acres, 3,920. Real property, £3,145; of which £445 are in mines. Pop., 237. Houses, 52. The property belongs to Thomas Leigh, Esq.; and has descended to him from Sir Perkin Leigh, who received it from the Black Prince, and was at Cressy. ...
Lyme Hall, Mr. Leigh's seat, is a noble quadrangular mansion, partly Tudor, partly by Leoni; contains portraits of the Black Prince and Sir Perkin, and a picture gallery; commands a very fine view, and stands in a park well-stocked with red deer.
Lyme Handley is now part of CHESHIRE EAST Unitary Authority. Click here for graphs and data of how CHESHIRE EAST has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Lyme Handley itself, go to Statistics.
How to reference this page:
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Lyme Handley, in Cheshire East and Cheshire | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/3630
Date accessed: 09th April 2026
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