LYME-HANDLEY, a township in the parish of
PRESTBURY, hundred of MACCLESFIELD, county palatine
of CHESTER, 7 miles (N. E. byN.) from Macclesfield,
containing 253 inhabitants. Lyme Hall, the principal
seat of the family of Legh, is a quadrangular
building of white grit-stone: the more ancient part of it
was erected about the end of the reign of Elizabeth;
the south and west fronts are of the Ionic order, from
a design by Leoni. In the park there are deer, the
flesh of which is of a superior flavour and quality,
produced, probably, by the peculiar nature of the herbage
upon which they feed.