DODCOT, a township, joint with Wilkesley, partly
in the parish of WUENBURY, but chiefly in that of
AUDLEM, hundred of NANTWICH, county palatine of
CHESTER, 4 miles (W. S. W.) from Audlem, containing
670 inhabitants. The chapel of Burley Dam, which is
in the parish of Audlem, stands in this township j it
is a neat modern structure, founded by Sir Lynch Salusbury
Cotton, Bart. In that part of the township
which is in the parish of Wrenbury, Hugh de Malbanc,
in 1133, founded the Cistercian monastery of Combermere,
and dedicated it to St. Mary and St. Michael, the
revenue of which, at the dissolution, was valued at
£258. 6. 6.: the site and buildings were granted, in the
32nd of Henry VIII., to William Cotton, Esq., an ancestor
of Lord Combermere, whose family seat, occupying
the spot, is agreeably situated on the margin of
the beautiful lake of Combermere, his lordship deriving
the title of baron from this place.