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Lyme Park NT A beautiful 1,400 acre estate of hills, moors and woodland in which sits a wonderful house and garden. We welcome feedback – both positive and negative.
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We’re hiring at Lyme 👩‍🍳We’re looking for two Cooks to join our lovely Food & Beverage team.If you love good food, feel ...
20/10/2026

We’re hiring at Lyme 👩‍🍳

We’re looking for two Cooks to join our lovely Food & Beverage team.

If you love good food, feel confident following recipes and batch-cooking, and fancy working with fresh, seasonal ingredients in a busy National Trust kitchen, we’d love to hear from you.

The roles are £13.25 per hour, fixed term for nine months with the possibility of extension. Hours are flexible and not guaranteed, but we’d typically expect to offer around 2–5 full days a week, depending on availability. There are weekend and Bank Holiday shifts, but no split shifts.

You don’t need to send a CV — the application starts with a short online assessment.

Applications close 25 October.

Find out more and apply here: https://tinyurl.com/y6ba8mmk

And if you know someone who might be a good fit, please share this with them!

Huge thanks to all the community groups, students and volunteers involved in putting the decorations together with HandM...
19/10/2026

Huge thanks to all the community groups, students and volunteers involved in putting the decorations together with HandMade Theatre to create the wonderful World at Christmas this December

The World at Christmas is coming together. Journey through traditions from around the world in the house this Christmas....
19/10/2026

The World at Christmas is coming together. Journey through traditions from around the world in the house this Christmas. Every day November 27 to December 24 11-3pm

The doors are beginning to appear... and the stories behind them go back much further than Halloween.🚪While creating Doo...
15/10/2026

The doors are beginning to appear... and the stories behind them go back much further than Halloween.🚪

While creating Doors to Hallowtide, Luca Sutton has been exploring some older traditions that sit beneath the Halloween we know today.

One that particularly stayed with her is Souling: a custom in which people went from door to door offering prayers for those who had died, receiving 'soul' cakes in return. For Luca, it revealed a side of the season that feels less about scares, and more about memory, generosity and neighbours connecting with one another:

'As much as this season carries an exciting eeriness I’ve come to realise its origins are far less about scary witches or devils and so much more about the people we miss.'

That idea runs through the installation now appearing across Lyme: doors as thresholds, meeting points and links between past and present.

From 17 October, you’ll find Doors to Hallowtide across the landscape at Lyme, drawing on folklore, old customs and the threads that connect us to people who came before.

Doors to Hallowtide
📅 17 October - 1 November
🕥 From 10.30am each day
🎟️ No booking needed, and no extra charge. Normal admission applies.
🥾 The full route is around 6km, so sturdy footwear is a good idea.

An October night. A candlelit chapel. Live strings at Lyme. 🕯️Join us after hours for our Halloween Concert by Candlelig...
13/10/2026

An October night. A candlelit chapel. Live strings at Lyme. 🕯️

Join us after hours for our Halloween Concert by Candlelight, performed by string trio Archie, Matthew and Elena.

Begin with a welcome glass of prosecco or a soft drink in the Servants’ Hall, then take your seat in Lyme's historic Chapel for an atmospheric evening of live music.

🎻 Friday 30 October
🕕 Arrive at 6pm; concert begins at 6.30pm
🎟️ £35 per person, including your welcome drink. Booking essential.

To book and to find out more about concerts at Lyme, check the What’s On section of our website.

Some winter days call for tea. Others call for soup, scones, festive treats and lots and lots of tea. ☕🎄This Christmas, ...
09/10/2026

Some winter days call for tea. Others call for soup, scones, festive treats and lots and lots of tea. ☕🎄

This Christmas, you can settle into Lyme’s historic Servants’ Hall for a festive afternoon tea.

Start with a glass of non-alcoholic bubbly and warming winter soup, followed by sandwiches, scones and festive sweet treats, with unlimited tea and coffee alongside.

Make a day of it! Wrap up for a winter wander through the park and gardens, or visit The World at Christmas in the house before taking your seat.

📅 Monday to Friday, 30 November - 18 December
🕛 12pm or 2.30pm
🎟️ £30 per person
📍 Servants’ Hall, Lyme

Find Festive Afternoon Tea in the What’s On section of our website. Booking is essential and normal admission charges apply.

You may have noticed some new faces beside the drive last week. 🐂For four days, a small group of Highland cattle were gr...
30/09/2026

You may have noticed some new faces beside the drive last week. 🐂

For four days, a small group of Highland cattle were grazing in a more prominent part of the park as part of a short trial by our ranger team.

The good news is that it worked really well. The cattle were able to graze naturally, visitors gave them the space they needed, and we learned a bit more about how this kind of grazing could work in future.

And they’re not just there because they look magnificent.

Highland cattle are really useful partners in looking after the landscape. They tackle the longer grasses that our deer often leave behind. Once those grasses have been grazed down, fresh shoots appear, which the deer are then happy to eat. Between them, they create a more varied patchwork of grassland for wildlife.

So, a big thank you to everyone who helped make the trial a success simply by giving the cattle room to do their thing.

If you see them at Lyme in future, please enjoy them from a distance. Our cattle aren’t for petting or feeding, and keeping to paths and following dog signage helps us keep both animals and people safe.

The Chapel in 1890. Four cellos in 2026. 🎻🍂We love the view of Lyme’s Chapel captured in this pencil drawing from 1890. ...
28/09/2026

The Chapel in 1890. Four cellos in 2026. 🎻🍂

We love the view of Lyme’s Chapel captured in this pencil drawing from 1890. It's a detailed and delicate pencil sketch brought to life with watercolour washes, and is attributed to a 'Miss Wyatt'.

On Wednesday 7 October, cello quartet Celloship of the String bring an autumnal programme with a slightly spooky edge to this historic space.

Expect Vivaldi’s Autumn, Saint-Saëns’ Danse Macabre, Margit van der Zwan’s Scary Tension and, yes, the theme from Ghostbusters.

📅 Wednesday 7 October
🕜 1.30–3.15pm
🎟️ £22 per person
☕ Tea or coffee included during the interval

Booking is open now through our What’s On pages. Normal admission to the park and garden applies.

26/09/2026
The doors are taking shape...🚪Artist Luca Sutton has been busy in the studio creating Doors to Hallowtide, a new install...
24/09/2026

The doors are taking shape...🚪

Artist Luca Sutton has been busy in the studio creating Doors to Hallowtide, a new installation coming to Lyme this half term.

These decorated doors will appear across the landscape, inspired by the old traditions of Allhallowstide, a time when the boundary between one world and another was thought to grow a little thinner.

Look closely and the doors begin to reveal their own language: figures, hands, patterns and small details that feel familiar at first, then slightly less so.

Over the next few weeks, these doors will leave Luca’s studio and find their places around Lyme. Then it’ll be up to you to decide what might be waiting on the other side.

Doors to Hallowtide opens for half term on 17 October and runs through to 1 November.

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