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"LYME-HANDLEY, a township in the parish of PRESTBURY, hundred of MACCLESFIELD, county palatine of CHESTER, 7 ½ miles (N. E. by N.) 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." [From Samuel Lewis A Topographical Dictionary of England (1831) ©Mel Lockie]
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- Lyme Handley was a township in Prestbury ancient parish, Macclesfield hundred (SJ 9682), which became a civil parish in 1866.
- It includes the hamlets of Middlecote, Pott Wood and Sponds.
- The population was 222 in 1801, 264 in 1851, 242 in 1901, 174 in 1951, and 151 in 2001.
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- Prestbury: St. Peter (Church of England). The ancient parish church for the township of Lyme Handley.
- Macclesfield (1837-1998)
- Cheshire East (1998-2007)
- Cheshire (2007-09)
- Cheshire East (2009+)
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- Macclesfield Rural Sanitary District (1875-94)
- Macclesfield Rural District (1894-1974)
- Macclesfield (1974-2009)
- Cheshire East (2009+)