Monument record 1574/8 - Coombs Farmstead

<1> Dodgson J McN, 1970-2, 1981, The Place-Names of Cheshire, Vol.I p.126 (Book). SCH3228.

The earliest documentary references to [the] Coombs date from the late thirteenth century and refer to a chase or hay.

<2> Various, Written Communication to the HER, Cliffe S, 09/01/2015 (Written Communication). SCH3756.

Coombs mentioned in mid fourteenth century documents as the hunting lodge used by the Black Prince and before him Edward I and the Earls of Chester.

<3> Bryant, A., 1831, Map of the County Palatine of Chester (Maps and Plans). SCH2114.

Coombs (spelt Combs) is depicted on this map.

<4> See map for surveyor, c.1837-51, Cheshire Tithe Maps and Awards, EDT 255/2, 1849 (Maps and Plans). SCH3266.

This map depicts an L-shaped building, or range of buildings, with small outbuldings to the north and east. The award records the occupier as Joseph Wilson and describes the plot as house, outhouses, garden, fold and croft.

<5> Ordnance Survey, 1871-1882, Ordnance Survey County Series (Epoch 1) 25 inch to 1 mile - Cheshire, SJ9670, 1871-1875 (Maps and Plans). SCH2462.

This map is very similar to the tithe map (see 4). A new c.10m square building has been constructed to the south of the L-shaped building. There is a well to it's south-west.

<6> Ordnance Survey, 1896-1898, Ordnance Survey First Revision County Series (Epoch 2) 25 inch to 1 mile - Cheshire, SJ9670, 1897 (Maps and Plans). SCH3848.

The L-shaped building has been demolished and a new building (a possible replacement house?) constructed to the immediate south-east. A new outbuilding has been constructed to the north.

<7> The GeoInformation Group, 2005, 1940s RAF Aerial Photographs from Operation Review, 106G UK 645, 11/08/1945 (Aerial Photograph). SCH4608.

The possible replacement house and one outbuilding, located to it's north, are still extant.

<8> Huntings Surveys Ltd, 1971-1973, 1971-1973 County Survey, Run 47 no.3940, 07/07/71 (Aerial Photograph). SCH4881.

The buildings are no longer extant.

<9> Harris, B E (ed), 1979, Victoria County History - A History of the County of Chester: Volume II, p.183 (Book). SCH6525.

By 1347 there was a hunting lodge at the Coombs which the chamberlain was ordered to repair. In 1361 the Black Prince ordered two lodges to be made in Macclesfield hundred and the chamber near the Coombs was mentioned in the survey of Whelley waste in 1638. In 1291 mention was made of inclosures for preserving the deer located near the Coombs and in 1303-4 expenditure was recorded for making an inclosure round the chase of Coombs.