She married Piers Legh and so the dynasty of the Legh family at Lyme began, which would stretch right up until 1946. When Sir Thomas died, the estate passed to his daughter, Margaret in 1388. Danyers had retrieved the standard of the Black Prince and was rewarded with annuity of 40 marks per year, which could be exchanged for land belonging to the Black Prince. Its history can be traced as far back as 1346, when the estate was gifted to Sir Thomas Danyers by Edward III, in gratitude for his service to the Black Prince at the Battle of Crécy.
Use without permission is illegalĪ few miles from the Peak District national park, Lyme is the largest house in Cheshire and is Grade 1 listed. Rollingstone1's most interesting photos on Flickriver Please right click the link and open in a new tab to view and listen. However, in 1996 the boundaries of Argyll and Bute and West Dunbartonshire were substantially redrawn, bringing the whole area into Argyll and Bute. The western end of Arrochar marks the traditional boundary of Argyllshire and Dunbartonshire, and this remained the case under local government reorganisation in 1975. The settlement was a key target for Viking raiders who took their boats 2 miles overland to Tarbet to attack the unprotected inland settlements at Loch Lomond before their defeat in 1263 at the battle of Largs. The family is Celtic in the male line and native to their Highland homeland of tall peaks and deep lochs just above the waist of Scotland. Arrochar at the head of Loch Long, Argyle and Bute.įor over five centuries this area, the feudal barony of Arrochar, was held by the chiefs of Clan MacFarlane and before them by their ancestors the barons of Arrochar.