It's a shame that we can never tell you these really juicy bits of news until special guests have departed, but the five-star self-catering cottages at Combermere Abbey are nothing if not very private!

Three well-known actresses with a huge list of credits between them have been staying with us while appeared in a production at the Lyceum Theatre in Crewe.

Lancashire-born Shirley Anne Field has been in more than two dozen films, and in television dramas as diverse as Monarch Of The Glen, Upstairs Downstairs and (incredibly for someone so glamorous) Last Of The Summer Wine. Anita Harris's career as a singer began when she was very young, and by her teens she was a dancer in Las Vegas. She appeared on television very frequently in the Sixties, Seventies and Eighties, often alongside the likes of Morecambe and Wise, French and Saunders, and Bob Monkhouse - and was in several Carry On films! Anne Charleston was born in Australia but has lived in Galway in the west of Ireland for many years. She is known as a stalwart of the soap opera Neighbours, in which she played Madge Mitchell between 1986 and 1992, and then again from 1996 to 2001.

All three ladies reportedly had a splendid stay in the Combermere cottages, and their play at The Lyceum - Fatal Encounter - was a huge success. It goes without saying that if stars such as these ladies' have been delighted by the tranquillity and romance of Combermere Abbey then you will be too.

The cottages are jolly busy over weekends in the near future, but there are terrific offers for online bookings of midweek breaks. Click here for more details and also for availability. You'll have a delightful time - and you never know who else might also be staying here!