The day after Christmas Abi, Jamie (Abi's dad), Shea, Sam, Peter, and I went to Lyme Park.
Lyme Park is a large, 1,300 acre estate just a few miles from Abi's house. The estate is vast, with hills that go on and on. Yet again words and pictures fail to portray how amazing this place actually is.
The ladder in the picture below is known as a stile, which allows people to pass over the wall, but not animals.
Oh I loved it there. It is hands down one of the most beautiful places I've ever been to.
Apart from the mansion, which I'll get to soon, the estate has several smaller structures known as the Lantern and the Cage. The Lantern once served as a lookout tower.
The Cage once served as a hunting lodge.
It may or may not interest you to know that the Lyme Park mansion was used as "Pemberley" (Mr. Darcy's residence) in the BBC version of Pride and Prejudice.
It just so happened that a traveling exhibit with some of the costumes from the film were on display. We shouldn't have been allowed into the exhibit rooms without paying an entrance fee, but for some reason that was overlooked by the park volunteers, and we got a nice sneak peek!
As the English say, it was a "brilliant" day!
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