Public Houses

Pubs

The Alsager Arms Hotel was first licensed in 1853, and began hosting vestry meetings, in place of the Lodge, in 1854, for a time in rotation with the Plough. The licensee was Samuel Warburton, who at one time owned much of the old core of the village in Audley Road. A wheelwright by trade (his son Thomas was a blacksmith), he later handed the hotel over to others and himself ran the Railway Inn, sometimes referred to as a beerhouse, which pre-dated the railway. The Alsager Arms was demolished in 2016 and the site redeveloped.

The Lodge Inn originated in an inn at the former Lodge farm, called the Holly Bush until the 1820s, when it became known as the Lodge. It ceased trading on that site about 1853. Its successor, on the current site on Crewe Road, was built by John Fox and opened the following year.

The Mere Inn is first noted in the local press in 1870, but must have been built in the previous decade. It has had various proprietors. Now a Joules house, it was once owned (along with houses in Cross Street) by Greenall Whitley.

The Plough is Alsager’s oldest hostelry. It was licensed in 1787, and possibly even earlier. It alternated with the Lodge as the site for annual vestry meetings, until the latter was supplanted by the Alsager Arms. Like the original Lodge, it is associated with a modest farm.