Combermere Abbey, Cheshire
Historical Description
Combermere Abbey, the seat of Viscount Combermere, in Acton parish, Cheshire, 3½ miles NE of Whitchurch. The mansion is built on the site of a Cistercian abbey founded in the 12th century, and given at the dissolution to George Cotton, whose descendant, Field-Marshal Sir Stapleton Cotton, was raised to the peerage in 1826 as Viscount Combermere for his services in India and the Peninsula. The mansion is situated in an extensive park, surrounded by beautiful woods, and overlooking Combermere Mere, a lake over 138 acres in extent.
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Cheshire is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Combermere Abbey are available from a number of sites:
- Bing (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- Google Streetview.
- National Library of Scotland. (Old maps)
- OpenStreetMap.
- old-maps.co.uk (Old Ordnance Survey maps to buy).
- Streetmap.co.uk (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- A Vision of Britain through Time. (Old maps)
Newspapers and Periodicals
The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following Cheshire papers online: