The Pub
The Egerton Arms is a traditional country pub with low beams, big fireplaces, bizarre antiques and a long bar with old brass pumps. Having now been revived as a local to the townsfolk of sunny Chelford, the pub features a fully equipped hundred-seater restaurant with friendly table service. All food is sourced locally by our experienced and very serious chef (serious about food that is). The menu is a selection of classic pub favourites and then the chef goes wild on his specials chopping board. Click here for menu.
The Owners
The pub was recently acquired by Jeremy Hague and Anne Lefeuvre, a young vibrant couple who have 30 years experience in the restaurant trade between them. Jeremy’s family is well known within the slightly older generation of the farming community. His grandfather was Glynne Jones from North Wales who produced the first ever hay bale machine called ‘The Jones Baler’, the bright red icon of farming equipment that every farmer grew up with after the war. The family farm is now the notorious North Wales Shooting School at Sealand. Anne originates from the cider and sailing country of Brittany Morhiban, ile des Moines. She later moved to Paris where she met Jeremy and they started up their first venture together, a small exclusive restaurant in St Germain serving fine but strangely enough, Asian cuisine.
A Bit of History
The pub itself dates back to the 16th century when as a coach house and pub, gentry and royals would freshen up before their formal visit to Lord Egerton’s estate at Tatton Park, just a few miles away. Meanwhile the horse groomers and staff would stay here at the pub and live it up whilst the boss is away. It was sold off in the late 1890’s by the Egerton family to a private buyer who urgently needed to replace the old candle and gas lamps with electricity and thus he took down the fifteen or so black chandeliers. On doing so he found that they were made of solid gold, which made him an overnight millionaire so he sold the pub on to a brewery.
Extensions were made to the building in the late nineties adding the ladies toilets and the ‘sitting room section’, which means that it now resides in both Chelford and Marthall Constituencies. The ‘Chef & Brewer’ chain ran the pub from 1990 until 2006 when Anne and Jeremy bought it and along side perfecting the running of it, they spent one long year rebuilding and repairing the pub back to its original working state. It is now a pub truly worthy of its name and heritage.
