LYTHAM HALL SNOWDROPS

Lytham Hall said to be the finest Georgian house in Lancashire is owned by Lytham Town Trust and managed under a 99 year agreement by Heritage Trust for the North West. The snowdrops were very pretty, here are some photographs. According to the leaflet we were given there are 18 species of Ganthus distributed from the Pyrenees to Iran and over 400 named snowdrops.

 The Clifton family were at Lytham Hall from at least the early 17th century. They were major land owners in the area and in 1606 Sir Cuthbert Clifton made his home at Lytham Hall. There was alwready a house there and the remains of a Norman priory.

When Thomas Clifton was squire he went onto build himself a grand house in 1752. He commissioned John Carr of Y ork to design him a house which backed onto the older Jacobean hall of his ancestors.