Stunning country estates you can visit near Greater Manchester

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You can't beat a nice stroll through the grounds of a magnificent country estate or stately home. Whether it is deer spotting in rugged open grounds, walking through a well kept garden, or enjoying fine antiques inside a beautifully decorated house, there are plenty of estates you can visit.

And thankfully living in Greater Manchester we are blessed with a number of fantastic grand houses on our doorstep. They range from the popular Dunham Massey with its ancient deer park, Lyme Park with its 1,300 acre estate and Arley Hall which is familiar to many a being a filming location for TV show Peaky Blinders. READ MORE: Things to do in Manchester from the National Football Museum to Heaton Park Here are nine statley home in and around Greater Manchester than you can visit.

The Grade I listed Heaton Hall, inside Heaton Park in Prestwich, has been called 'the finest house of its period in Lancashire'.

The state rooms include a library, the music room, dining room and a rather rare Etruscan room. The rooms were exquisitely finished by the finest artists and craftsmen of the period, with most of the furnishings and mahogany doors being made by Gillow's of Lancashire.