Today we ventured all the way across the national park to Lyme Park to see "Pemberley" - (aka Lyme Hall) as made famous in the BBC's version of Pride & Prejudice with Colin Firth and Jennifer Ehle.
After driving through Buxton and failing to see any of the springs to get their famous (in the UK) water, we made it to Disley and Lyme Park. It's a National Trust property (and therefore not the cheapest place to visit) but after getting the iconic photos in order, we joined a free guided walking tour of the gardens. The work they do on the gardens, which is mostly done by volunteers, is quite astonishing and there was lots to see, including a painting being restored in an anteroom to the hot house, an awesome playground and an art installation which involved banging drums to make lights on the faraway folly change colour.
We also walked through the deer park and walked up to the "cage" - a building that was used as a hunting lodge. The local inhabitants of the fields - Highland cattle - were either very friendly or hostile depending on your perspective!
As they say, the building is very favourably situated and the reflective lake is quite gorgeous. I'm very glad we visited!
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| Bit of a change after 600 years... |
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| Beautiful! (and very aptly named "reflection lake") |
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| Could I pass for Miss Bennet? |
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| The famous view |
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| The side of the house and the hot house gardens |
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| Painting restoration |
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| Very cool art installation - the lights on the far away folly change colour when you bang the different drums |
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| View out over Derbyshire |
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| The cage |
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| Friend or foe?? Let's just walk around in a big, wide circle to make sure... |
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| Awesome digger! |
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| Sun setting over Pemberley after a lovely day |
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