FRIDAY, AUGUST 12

National Trust - Lyme Park: The Italianate palace is one of the biggest houses in Cheshire and was originally a Tudor House National Trust: Lyme Park, Disley, Stockport. £9.90, child £5, family £22.50, house only £7.20, child £3.60, family £18. Aug 12-Sep 4, Thu-Tue 11am-5pm, house, Sep 5-Oct 30, Fri-Tue 11am5pm. Call 01663 762023. National Trust - Lyme Park, Garden: Tranquil Victorian garden, with roses and sunken parterre. National Trust Lyme Park, Disley, Stockport. £9.90, child £5, family £22.50, garden only £6.30, child £3.15, family £15.75.Aug 12-Oct 30, 11am-5pm, garden, Nov 5-Dec 31, Sat-Sun 11am-4pm. Call 01663 762023. National Trust – LymePark, Park: Vast medieval deer park, moorland and woodland estate to explore. National Trust Lyme Park, Disley, Stockport. £9.90, child £5, family £22.50. Aug 12-Oct 4, 8am-8pm, Oct 5, 8.30am-6pm. Call 01663 762023. Staircase House: Set in the heart of Stockport’s historic market place, and boasting an intriguing array of rooms linked by corridors and narrow passages. All the rooms have been restored using period colours, furniture and artefacts which reflect the attraction’s long and eventful history. The bedroom boasts a seventeenth century four poster bed, there’s a two hundred year old table in the 18th-century dining room, an authentic busy kitchen, and some historic lighting in the tallow room. There are also rumours of ghostly goings-on and the house is allegedly haunted by the ghost of Robert Owten, former butler to the Shallcross family. The building is a grade 2* listed medieval town house dating back to around 1460. Very little is known of the house’s early history, though it is thought that it was originally the home of the Mayor of Stockport, William Dodge, in 1483. Staircase House, Market Place, Stockport. £4.75, concs £3.50, under 16s free, if accompanied. Jan-Dec, Tue-Fri 1pm5pm, Sat 10am-5pm, Sun, Bank Hols 11am-5pm, last adm 1hr 15mins before closing. Call 0161 480 1460.