Combermere Abbey

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Combermere Abbey is a former monastery, later a country house, near Burleydam, between Nantwich and Whitchurch in Cheshire, England, near the border with Shropshire. Initially Savigniac and later Cistercian, the abbey was founded in the 1130s by Hugh Malbank, Baron of Nantwich, and was also associated with Ranulf de Gernons, Earl of Chester. The abbey initially flourished, but by 1275 was sufficiently deeply in debt to be removed from the abbot's management. From that date until its dissolution in 1538, it was frequently in royal custody, and acquired a reputation for poor discipline and violent disputes with both lay people and other abbeys. It was the third largest monastic establishment in Cheshire, based on net income in 1535. ()

Alternative names: Coordinates: 52°59'37"N, 2°36'50"W

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Combermere, WhitchurchEnglandUnited Kingdom

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Nearby attractions include: Cholmondeley Castle, Nantwich Museum, Hack Green Secret Nuclear Bunker, St James' Church.

5.5 miNW
Forts and castles, Garden, Park
Cholmondeley Castle
141 min walk • Cholmondeley Castle is a country house in the civil parish of Cholmondeley, Cheshire, England. Together with its adjacent formal gardens, it is surrounded by parkland. The site of the house has been a seat of the Cholmondeley family since the 12th century. The present house replaced a timber-framed hall nearby.
6.3 miNE
Specialty museum, History museum, Historical and heritage tours
Nantwich Museum, Nantwich
161 min walk • Nantwich Museum is a local museum in the town of Nantwich, Cheshire, northwest England, founded in 1980. The museum is housed in the former public library, dating from 1888.
4.2 miNE
Specialty museum, Military base, History museum
Hack Green Secret Nuclear Bunker, Nantwich
107 min walk • The Hack Green Secret Nuclear Bunker is a former government-owned nuclear bunker located at Hack Green, Cheshire, England.
4.4 miE
Church
St James' Church
113 min walk • St James' Church is in the village of Audlem in south Cheshire, England. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade I listed building. The church dates from the late 13th century with additions in the 19th century.
3.4 miSW
Church
St Alkmund's Church
86 min walk • St Alkmund's Church is an active Anglican parish church in Whitchurch, Shropshire, England. It stands at an elevated position in the centre of the town. The church is recorded in the National Heritage List for England which has designated it a Grade I listed building.
6.1 miNE
Church, Gothic architecture, Gothic Revival architecture
St Mary's Church, Nantwich
156 min walk • St Mary's Church is an active Anglican parish church located in Monk's Lane, Acton, a village to the west of Nantwich, Cheshire, England. Since 1967 it has been designated a Grade I listed building. A church has been present on this site since before the time of the Domesday Survey.
5.9 miNE
Museum, History museum
Dorfold Hall
151 min walk • Dorfold Hall is a Grade I listed Jacobean mansion in Acton, Cheshire, England, considered by Nikolaus Pevsner to be one of the two finest Jacobean houses in the county. The present owners are the Roundells.
4.4 miW
Church
St Chad's Church
111 min walk • St Chad's Church is on Chester Road in the civil parish of Tushingham-cum-Grindley, Macefen and Bradley, Cheshire, England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the deanery of Malpas, the archdeaconry of Chester, and the diocese of Chester.
4.2 miW
Hiking, Hiking trail
Shropshire Way
106 min walk • The Shropshire Way Main Route is a waymarked long distance footpath running through the English county of Shropshire. It runs 202 miles around the interior of the county in two loops centred on Shrewsbury, with an additional spur to Whitchurch.
6.3 miNE
Night club, Forts and castles
Nantwich Castle, Nantwich
160 min walk • Nantwich Castle was a Norman castle in Nantwich, Cheshire, England, built before 1180 to guard a ford across the River Weaver. The castle is first documented in 1288. It was last recorded in 1462, and was in ruins by 1485.
4 miW
Church
St Chad's Chapel
103 min walk • St Chad's Chapel is an isolated church in the scattered community of Tushingham in the civil parish of Tushingham-cum-Grindley, Macefen and Bradley, Cheshire, England. The only approach to the chapel is on footpaths across fields from the A41 road.