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  Catching Lyme Disease In The City
In one park in Magdeburg, Germany, all the rats and half of the mice tested carried Borrelia burgdorferi, the bacteria that causes Lyme disease, according to a report in the Journal of Infectious Diseases.
Only one case of park-associated Lyme disease has occurred -- in Baltimore -- and in none of the parks was a reservoir host -- such as rats or mice -- implicated in the problem.
Lyme disease is characterized by a spreading, ring-like rash around a tick bite, accompanied by headache, chills and fever.
www.personalmd.com /news/a1996102507.shtml   (386 words)

  
 Tatton Park in Cheshire and Lyme Park near Stockport
Tatton park and hall are probably one of the most visited properties of the National Trust, with there being so much to see and do that a lot of families make a weekend of it.
Lyme Hall is part sixteenth, part seventeenth, and part eighteenth century and is the largest house in Cheshire.
Lyme Park was the family home of the Leghs for 600 years, until it was taken over in 1946 to be owned by the National trust and part-financed by Stockport Borough Council.
www.manchester2002-uk.com /history/renaiss/history1.html   (936 words)

  
 Lyme Park - Review - Lyme Park, Disley, Nr Stockport, Cheshire   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
At first glance Lyme Park appears to be complete from the outside, when you get into the building you find that the interior betrays its age, and parts of the Elizabethan structure, which were built by Sir Piers VII can be seen.
The red deer which roam freely over the park are said to be descendants of the deer which roamed the land when it was first enclosed by Piers Legh I. Up until 1884 there were wild cattle with white coats and red ears as well, but despite attempts to cross-breed them, they died out.
Lyme Park is open on Friday to Tuesday from 11:00 hours closing at 17:00 hours and Wednesday and Thursday from 13:00 hours closing at 17:00 hours – from the end March until the end October each year.
www.ciao.co.uk /Lyme_Park__Review_5149228   (933 words)

  
 Lyme Park, Cheshire
Lyme Park in Cheshire is, as the name suggests, not merely Lyme Hall but also a vast park comprising of woods and meadows, a Deer Sanctuary and conservation areas (the conservation areas are not open to the public).
Lyme Hall is some distance from the car park but there are special facilities for those who have difficulty with the steps to that lead to the Hall.
Finally for Lyme Park I would like to say that the guidebook is well worth the price of purchase, as it contains information about each of the rooms, guides you on your tour (there is no human guide) and gives detailed information about the furniture and portraits around the building.
louisabrown.net /Lyme.htm   (761 words)

  
 Lyme Park - Review - A gem in the National Trust   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
Lyme park...although described as being in Manchester is actually in Disley (About 18 miles from the city centre).Lyme park is a feast of beauty and a gem within the National Trust.
On of Lyme Parks claim to fame,is that its unspiolt beauty owes its being to one of the best horticultural teams in the country...and to that end Lyme Park has several times been used by Television companies to film period dramas and the like.
The park also boasts deer-parks, which are fully accessable to the public and give children and the young of many a conurbation...their first experience of englands greatest wild-life game and fowl.
www.ciao.co.uk /Lyme_Park__Review_26550   (465 words)

  
 Lyme Park   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
Lyme Park was the country seat of the Legh family for 550 years.
Another building in the park is the Lantern, which has a square base, an octagonal central section and a pyramidal roof.
The red deer which roam freely over the park are descended from the deer which roamed the land when it was first enclosed by Piers Legh I. Up until 1884 there were wild cattle with white coats and red ears as well, but despite attempts to cross-breed them, they died out.
www.heritage.me.uk /houses/lyme.htm   (937 words)

  
 Prince William Forest Park - Nature & Science   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
Lyme disease is caused by Borrelia burgdorferi, a bacterium spread through the bite of the Deer Tick.
Lyme Disease is easily treated in the early stages of progression by antibiotics, and the vast majority of patients recover fully.
The park is currently monitoring mosquito populations for the presence of WNV.
www.nps.gov /prwi/pphtml/subenvironmentalfactors10.html   (434 words)

  
 www.bootsandpaws.co.uk - Lyme Park
Lyme Park is located seven miles south of the centre of Stockport, in Disley off the A6 road.
Lyme Hall is famous as the setting for exterior scenes of 'Pemberley' in the BBC's adaptation of Jane Austin's Pride and Prejudice starring Jennifer Ehle, and Colin Firth as Mr Darcy.
Lyme Hall was home to the Legh family for 600 years until 1946 when it became the property of the National Trust, it is one of Cheshire's biggest country houses.
www.bootsandpaws.co.uk /lyme.html   (276 words)

  
 Lyme Park, Cheshire
Lyme Park was begun in the Tudor period but the present house was transformed by the architect Leoni into an ornate Italian palace in the 1720s.
The estate surrounding the house stretches to an enormous 1400 acres, with a deer park that existed in the medieval period, moorland, and park containing a hunting tower built in the 18th century.
Lyme Park was featured in the BBC production of Jane Austen's novel Pride and Prejudice.
www.britainexpress.com /counties/cheshire/houses/lyme-park.htm   (266 words)

  
 Lyme Park - 360 Spin - 360° x 360° virtual tour photography, ipix virtual tours - cheshire, manchester
Home of the Legh family for 600 years, Lyme is one of Cheshire’s biggest country houses with superb gardens which display year-round colour.
The garden is surrounded by a medieval deer park of almost 566ha (1,400 acres) of moorland, woodland and parkland, containing an early 18th-century hunting tower.
Lyme appeared as ‘Pemberley’ in the BBC’s adaptation of Jane Austen’s novel Pride and Prejudice, and also featured in the recent Granada production of The Forsyte Saga.
www.360spin.co.uk /demo/lymepark.htm   (213 words)

  
 Lyme Park - Derbyshire   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
The exterior and gardens of Lyme Hall were used in the recent BBC Pride & Prejudice miniseries for Mr.
The park and house belonged to the Legh family for over six hundred years, donated in 1946 by Lord Newton, Richard Legh, to the National Trust.
The park is also famous for it’s herd of 500 deer, which have been here in Lyme for over 600 years.
www.world.u-net.com /lymepark.htm   (160 words)

  
 Lyme Park from Poynton - a Peak District Walk - Walking Britain   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
Although the start is in Cheshire the majority of the route is within the boundaries of the Peak District National Park.
Alternative shorter walks can be undertaken either by starting from the Lyme Park car park and picking the route up from The Cage path to the left of The Hall or using the 'Middlewood Way' or the canal as a link.
Exit the car park and turn left (north east) then right at the lane to head south.
www.walkingbritain.co.uk /walks/walksv1/vw057.shtml   (684 words)

  
 Lyme Park, England - Canon Digital Photography Forums
In 1398 Margaret Legh came to Lyme Park, after exchanging an annuity granted to her grandfather several years earlier for his courageous efforts at the Battle of Crecy whilst accompanying the Black Prince.
In the 1720s a major modernisation of Lyme Park was undertaken by the famous Venetian architect, Giacomo Leoni, whose work included recasing the original house, creating spacious internal areas, and constructing the magnificent Italian style courtyard.
His contribution to the improvements at Lyme Park included the creation of the beautiful Dutch garden, the building of a new stable block, and the addition of many new buildings on the estate.
photography-on-the.net /forum/showthread.php?t=60955   (975 words)

  
 CT DEP: Rocky Neck State Park
The park is open from 8 am to sunset.
Pets on a leash are permitted in picnic areas and on hiking trails.
The public now enjoys use of the park because of a few farsighted conservationists who secured the land in 1931, using their personal funds until the State Legislature authorized its purchase.
dep.state.ct.us /stateparks/parks/rockyneck.htm   (501 words)

  
 Macclesfield Canal - walk to Lyme Park   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
Lyme Park covers a huge area so a walk across it can amount to a mile or two just between the park boundaries.
Park in the Nelson Pit car park (SJ39443833) which is well signed along local roads.
Once you reach the park gate turn left, cross the stream bridge and then follow the footpath across the small field.
www.macc-cs.org.uk /macclesfield/mcwlklp.htm   (635 words)

  
 Cheshire's Mysterious Sites
Lyme park is haunted by a phantom funeral procession with a weeping white clad woman who walks some distance behind.
His mistress, a woman called Blanche, was not allowed to go to the funeral and followed some distance behind, she is said to have died of grief some weeks later.
Her spirit is also supposed to haunt the long gallery of Lyme house within the park.
www.mysteriousbritain.co.uk /england/cheshire/cheshire2.html   (138 words)

  
 The DiCamillo Companion - Database:  History, Gardens, Movies
Lyme Park became the family's principal seat in the mid-16th century when Sir Piers Legh VII (1514-89) built the core of the present house.
The Leghs were strong supporters of the Stuart cause (James II was entertained at Lyme in 1676), were involved in plots to restore the Stuart monarchy and consequently suffered arrest because of their beliefs and actions.
The daughter of the second Lord Newton, Phyllis Sandeman, wrote of the pleasures of growing up at Lyme in her book "Treasure on Earth." The 3rd Lord Newton found that the family could no longer support the upkeep of Lyme Park and gave it to The National Trust in 1946.
www.dicamillocompanion.com /Houses_hgpm.asp?ID=1314   (355 words)

  
 L.L.Bean: Park Search - Rocky Neck State Park   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
The park has an attractive mix of terrain, much of it wooded, with some ledge outcroppings and gentle changes in elevation.
The park's 160 campsites, along five loops, are less than a mile from the beach.
The park is on state Route 156 (244 West Main Street) in East Lyme.
www.llbean.com /parksearch/parks/html/800lls.htm   (312 words)

  
 Lyme Park   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
The combination of a great house, formal garden and ancient deer park close to the major conurbations adds an element of surprise for today’s visitor.
The Medieval and Elizabethan house of the Leghs of Lyme was given its present Palladian incarnation by Giacomo Leoni in the 1730’s.
The restoration of the Lime Avenue and extension of the fallow deer park reinstates the historic vista to the south.
www.lpkf.fsnet.co.uk /html/lyme_park.html   (383 words)

  
 Lyme Park Charity Event - Jan 8 2005   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
Lyme park, Disley, near Stockport GR Entrance is on A6, just west of Disley village.
We shall have a Licence to allow free entry to the Park which will save you £3.50 per car.
A condition of our use of the Park is that no spikes shall be worn.
www.mdocmembers.plus.com /events/lyme2005.htm   (297 words)

  
 Lyme Hall And Gardens
Lyme Hall was originally a Tudor house until the Venetian Architect Leoni turned it into an Italianate palace in the early 18th Century.
It stands in a fine park with commanding views of the Cheshire Plains amongst ornate gardens.
The house is set in impressive gardens and there is a guide leaflet available to help you make the most of this part of the visit.
www.getoutguide.co.uk /attractions/attractions/lyme_hall.htm   (188 words)

  
 Historic properties & collections - Conservation | The National Trust   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
Set within a magnificent deer park and originally a Tudor house, Lyme was transformed by the Venetian architect Leoni into a huge Italianate palace.
The exterior of Lyme was used to represent 'Pemberley', Mr Darcy's home, in the popular television series starring Colin Firth and Jennifer Ehle.
The entrance to the park is on the A6, 6.5 miles (10.5km) SE of Stockport, 9 miles (14.5km) NW of Buxton.
www.nationaltrust.org.uk /historicproperties/index.cfm?fuseaction=property&property_id=178   (637 words)

  
 LYME-PAC Requests Public Hearings
NEW YORK, Feb. 21 /PRNewswire/ -- LYME-PAC, a coalition of 12 regional Lyme patient advocacy groups in New York State, is requesting public hearings regarding the Department of Health's decision to take sides in a heated scientific and medical controversy concerning the appropriate standard for diagnosis and treatment of Lyme and other tick-borne diseases.
Extensive articles in peer-reviewed medical journals establish that the testing for Lyme disease is unreliable and that the bacteria is often not destroyed by this 2 to 3-week treatment protocol.
The "one size fits all" approach is inherently incorrect in the practical application of medical science, and it is specifically failing to effectively address the real life medical tragedy in a large number of Lyme disease patients.
www.prnewswire.com /cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/02-21-2000/0001145629&EDATE=   (345 words)

  
 The Bowmen Of Lyme Homepage   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
The Bowmen of Lyme are privileged enough to shoot in the idylic location of Lyme Park.
Lyme Park is a National Trust property that was used as the filming location of Jane Austins 'Pride and Prejudice' as well as the 'Timeslides' episode from series 3 of Red Dwarf!
As part of our agreement with Lyme Park, it is a prerequisite that all club members also be members of the National Trust.
www.bowmenoflyme.com   (403 words)

  
 Lyme Hall in Cheshire
The park around the hall covers more than 1300 acres.
It was granted to Sir Piers Legh for his bravery in rescuing the Black Prince's standard during the Hundred Years War.
Long after he was buried I would head a funeral cortege that went through the park and along the river towards the house.
pages.zoom.co.uk /hauntedplaces/lymehall.htm   (197 words)

  
 Blogger: Email Post to a Friend   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
A phantom funeral procession is occasionally seen at Lyme Park, proceeding towards a small hill, known as Knight’s Low, and behind it walks the figure of a woman in white.
It is thought that the Lady in White also walks in the area where her own body was found, in a meadow at a spot now called the Lady’s Grave.
It was in the room that Mary, Queen of Scots slept whilst imprisoned at Lyme Hall.
www.blogger.com /email-post.g?blogID=5415340&postID=109907424674334380   (385 words)

  
 Lyme Park (National Trust) - 24 Hour Museum - official guide to UK museums, galleries, exhibitions and heritage
The garden is surrounded by a medieval deer park of almost 566ha (1400 acres) of moorland, woodland and parkland, containing an early 18th-century hunting tower (The Cage).
Lyme appeared as ‘Pemberley’ in the BBC’s adaptation of Jane Austen’s novel Pride and Prejudice.
Lyme appeared as ‘Pemberley’ in the BBC’s adaptation of Jane Austen’s novel Pride and Prejudice ; Mortlake tapestries ; Grinling Gibbons woodcarvings ; important collection of English clocks ; Venetian architect Leoni
www.24hourmuseum.org.uk /museum_gfx_en/AM26888.html   (213 words)

  
 Lyme Park & Dissop Head - a Peak District Walk - Walking Britain   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
Continue along this road passing large houses and boarding kennels to a large gate into Lyme Park (grid ref 967841).
Enter the park (no charge) then at the main entrance road, with its small hut, turn left then left again to follow a vehicle track that gently climbs at first in a south-east direction passing the Water Treatment Works on your left.
In front of you in the valley lies Dissop Head, then The Moorside Hotel and behind it Black Hill (not to be confused with Black Hill near The Woodhead Pass) and in the far distance the hills of the Peak District.
www.walkingbritain.co.uk /walks/walksv1/vw067.shtml   (589 words)

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