The Cheshire home featured in Pride and Prejudice that's an hour from Manchester

Lyme Hall in Chesire will certainly be recognisable to any Pride and Prejudice fans, with the stately home serving as the exterior of Pemberley in the 1995 BBC miniseries.

The gardens on Lyme Hall, known as Lyme Park, were also used in the series as Pemberley's gardens.

With Lyme Hall just one hour away from Manchester it's the perfect place for a day trip, to wander the grounds and see the lake from the iconic scene with Colin Firth as Mr Darcy.

And while you can go inside the mansion, if you're hoping to see Pemberley's interior you'll be disappointed, as these scenes were filmed at Derbyshire's Sudbury Hall.

But there is still plenty to see within the walls of Lyme Hall, which remained the home of the Leghs of Lyme from 1388 until 1946, when it was given to the National Trust.

There is a 'Lyme through the Ages' exhibition with a collection of items from the last 600 years. There also collections of toys for children to play with, and a Regency dressing room where you dress up as Elizabeth Bennet or Mr Darcy.

And either before or after your trip into the house there is the grounds to explore, including the aforementioned lake.

When first arriving at Lyme you may think that the large lake at the front of the house was the location at which the series's most famous scene, that of Mr Darcy going for a swim before heading home to Elizabeth Bennet at Pemberley, was filmed, but you would be wrong.

The lake in question is actually deeper in the grounds of Lyme Hall's 1,400 acres. There's plenty else to explore within this land too, including a rose garden, ancient woodlands, rugged moors, and a play area for children.

Pride and Prejudice's lake scene was notoriously difficult to film, despite its relative simplicity. Colin Firth was not allowed to dive into the lake due to an increased risk of infection with Weil's disease in the water.

A stuntman was instead hired to film this scene, which then had to be done in one take due to insurance costs. The underwater scenes were then filmed in a water tank in Ealing Studios at a later date.