Lord Combermere...

Have you ever wondered why pubs have a certain name? There's a lot of history and many of our well loved local pubs have a name related to ours...

The Combermere Arms, The Bhurtpore, The Cotton Arms, and our pub The Lord Combermere.

Lord Combermere (also known as Field Marshal Stapleton Cotton) (14 November 1773 – 21 February 1865), was a British Army officer, diplomat and politician. As a junior officer, he took part in the Flanders campaign, in the Fourth Anglo-Mysore War and in the suppression of Robert Emmet's insurrection in 1803. He commanded a cavalry brigade in Sir Arthur Wellesley's Army before being given overall command of the cavalry in the latter stages of the Peninsular War. He went on to be Commander-in-Chief, Ireland and then Commander-in-Chief, India. In the latter role he stormed Bharatpur (the battle that The Bhurtpore was named after..)—a fort which previously had been deemed impregnable.

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The village of Audlem is located in the authority of Cheshire East and the ceremonial county of Cheshire, approximately 7 miles south of Nantwich Close to the border with the neighbouring county of Shropshire the village is eight miles east of Whitchurch and seven miles north of Market Drayton. According to the 2011 census, the population of the entire civil parish is 1991.

The Lord Combermere sits proudly in the heart of the village. We are delighted to be bringing it back to the centre of the community.