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  • England
    • London >
      • Hazlitts
      • The Fox Club
      • Rose and Crown Wimbledon
      • The Cadogan
      • Browns
      • Langham
      • Goring Hotel
      • Old Manor House
      • Red Lion Hillingdon
      • Cannizaro House
      • Grims Dyke Hotel
    • Bedfordshire >
      • Queens Head Milton Ernest
      • Luton Hoo Hotel
      • The Falcon
    • Berkshire >
      • Bull Inn Sonning
      • The Bear Hungerford
      • Littlecote
      • Elcot Park Hotel
    • Buckinghamshire >
      • The Kings Arms
      • The Greyhound Inn
      • Cliveden
      • The Swan Revived
      • Hartwell House Hotel
      • The Compleat Angler
      • Cock Hotel Stony Stratford
      • Shakespeare House
      • Kings Hotel
    • Cambridgeshire >
      • The Haycock Hotel
      • The Bell Inn
      • The Old Hall Ely
      • The Old Ferryboat
    • Cheshire >
      • The Chester Grosvenor
      • The Queen Hotel
      • Crewe Hall Hotel
      • The Crown of Nantwich
      • Heathercliffe Hotel
    • Cornwall and Isles of Scilly >
      • The Headland Hotel
      • Dolphin Tavern Penzance
      • Housel Bay Hotel
      • The Wellington Hotel
      • The Greenbank Hotel
      • The Falmouth Hotel
      • Camelot Castle Hotel
      • Tregarthens
      • Star Castle Hotel
      • Trerose Manor
    • Cumbria and Lake District >
      • The Royal Oak Borrowdale
      • The Ambleside Salutation
      • The Swan Hotel Grasmere
      • Lancrigg
      • Lindeth Howe Hotel
      • White Moss House
      • Foxghyll
      • George of Penrith
      • Ann Tyson's House
    • Derbyshire >
      • The George at Hathersage
      • The Old Hall Buxton
      • The Rutland Arms
      • The Izaak Walton Hotel
      • The Old Lockup Wirksworth
    • Devon >
      • Two Bridges Dartmoor
      • The Three Crowns
      • Lewtrenchard Manor Hotel
      • The Oxenham Arms
      • Royal Castle Dartmouth
      • Churston Court
      • The Hoops Inn
      • Boringdon Hall Hotel
      • The Castle Inn
      • Royal Seven Stars
      • Rising Sun Lynmouth
      • Shelley's Hotel
      • Langdon Court
      • Royal Clarence Hotel
    • Dorset >
      • The Acorn Inn
      • Crown at Marnhull
      • Brace of Pheasants
      • Royal Lion
      • Langtry Manor
      • Kings Arms Dorchester
      • Grosvenor Arms
      • Bull of Bridport
      • Mariners
      • The Abbots House
    • Durham >
      • The George Piercebridge
      • Walworth Castle
      • Seaham Hall
      • The Ravensworth Arms
    • Essex >
      • Marygreen Manor Hotel
      • The Red Lion
      • The Rose and Crown
    • Gloucestershire >
      • Thornbury Castle
      • Charingworth Manor
      • Kings Arms Stow
      • The Fleece of Cirencester
      • The Manor House Hotel
      • Bodkin House
      • The New Inn
      • The Royalist Hotel
      • Court House Manor
      • White Hart Royal
      • Wesley House
    • Hampshire >
      • The Dolphin Hotel
      • Oakley Hall
      • The Swan of Alton
      • Rhinefield House
      • Lainston House
      • The Elvetham Hotel
      • Passford House Hotel
      • Crown at Lyndhurst
    • Herefordshire >
      • The Royal Hotel
      • The Talbot at Ledbury
    • Hertfordshire >
      • The Grove
      • Sopwell House Hotel
      • Cromwell Hotel
    • Kent >
      • Falstaff Hotel
      • The House of Agnes
      • Sun Hotel Canterbury
      • Eastwell Manor
      • The Leather Bottle
      • The George at Cranbrook
      • The Abbott's Fireside
      • Dog and Bear Lenham
      • Queens Inn Hawkhurst
      • Bleak House
    • Lancashire >
      • Midland Hotel Manchester
      • Childwall Abbey
      • The Swan and Royal
      • Roscoe House
    • Leicestershire >
      • The Three Swans
      • Rothley Court Hotel
    • Lincolnshire >
      • The Angel and Royal
      • The George of Stamford
      • The White Hart
    • Norfolk >
      • The Maids Head
      • Lynford Hall Hotel
      • The Hoste Arms
    • Northamptonshire >
      • Fawsley Hall Hotel
      • Rushton Hall Hotel
      • Talbot Hotel Oundle
      • The Hind of Wellingborough
      • Saracens Head Towcester
    • Northumberland >
      • Langley Castle Hotel
      • Chillingham Castle
    • Nottinghamshire >
      • Saracens Head of Southwell
      • Colwick Hall Hotel
      • Ye Olde Bell
    • Oxfordshire >
      • Old Parsonage Oxford
      • MacDonald Randolph Hotel
      • Crown & Thistle
      • The Bear Hotel of Woodstock
      • The Old Bull Burford
      • The George at Wallingford
      • Red Lion at Henley
      • Bath Place Oxford
    • Shropshire >
      • Prince Rupert Classic Hotel
      • The Lion Hotel
      • Feathers Hotel Ludlow
      • Catherine of Aragon Suite
    • Somerset >
      • Bath Spa Hotel
      • Queen Charlotte's Orangery
      • Apsley House Bath
      • The George at Norton St Philip
      • Crown Hotel Wells
      • Swan Hotel Wells
      • The Castle of Comfort
      • Castle Hotel at Taunton
      • The Ship Inn
      • The Old House
      • Luttrell Arms
    • Staffordshire >
      • Old Hall Country House
      • The Swan of Stafford
      • New Hall Hotel
    • Suffolk >
      • Seckford Hall Hotel
      • Hintlesham Hall Hotel
      • The Angel Hotel
    • Surrey >
      • Crown Inn Chiddingfold
      • Great Fosters
      • Burford Bridge Hotel
      • The Angel Posting House and Livery
      • Oatlands Park
      • The Talbot at Ripley
    • East Sussex >
      • The Grand Hotel
      • George of Robertsbridge
      • The Mermaid
      • The George Inn Rye
      • Ocklynge Manor
      • Old Ship Hotel
      • Buxted Park Hotel
      • Strand House Winchelsea
    • West Sussex >
      • Amberley Castle Hotel
      • The Spread Eagle
      • The Angel at Midhurst
      • Gravetye Manor Hotel
      • White Horse Storrington
      • The Swan of Fittleworth
      • The George at Crawley
    • Warwickshire >
      • The White Swan of Stratford
      • Alveston Manor Hotel
      • Coombe Abbey Hotel
      • Chapel House Atherstone
      • White Swan at Henley
    • Wiltshire >
      • Rollestone Manor
      • Castle Inn at Castle Combe
      • Manor House Hotel Castle Combe
      • The Old Bell
      • Red Lion of Salisbury
      • King John's Hunting Lodge
    • Worcestershire >
      • Abbots Grange at Broadway
      • The Lygon Arms
      • Dumbleton Hall Hotel
      • Hadley Bowling Green Inn
      • The White Lion
    • Yorkshire >
      • The Guy Fawkes Inn
      • Middlethorpe Hall Hotel
      • Churchill Hotel York
      • The Talbot at Malton
      • Swinton Park Hotel
      • Hazlewood Castle
      • The Crown of Harrogate
      • The Old Swan Hotel
      • Nidd Hall
      • Whitley Hall Hotel
      • Black Swan at Helmsley
      • The Old Deanery
      • Bay Royal Hotel Whitby
      • Kings Head Richmond
  • Scotland
    • Highlands and North Scotland >
      • Culloden House Hotel
      • Inverlochy Castle Hotel
      • Kilmarnock Arms
      • Taychreggan Hotel
      • The Cuilfail Hotel
      • The Kenmore Hotel
      • Atholl Arms Hotel
    • Edinburgh and Mid Scotland >
      • Prestonfield
      • Channings Hotel
      • Dalhousie Castle
      • Stevenson House
      • The Castle Snug
      • Houstoun House Hotel
      • Golden Lion Hotel Stirling
      • Borthwick Castle
    • Southern Scotland >
      • Traquair
      • Spread Eagle Jedburgh
      • Friars Carse
      • Kings Arms Lockerbie
      • The Ship Inn
  • Wales
    • North Wales >
      • Soughton Hall
      • Castle Hotel Conwy
      • Ruthin Castle Hotel
      • Plas Dolmelynllyn Hall
      • Pale Hall
      • St Tudno Hotel
      • Ye Olde Bulls Head
      • Gwydir Castle
    • Mid Wales >
      • Ynyshir Hall
      • Llangoed Hall
      • Lake Country House Hotel
    • South Wales >
      • The Great House
      • The Angel of Cardiff
      • The Royal Hotel Cardiff
      • Castle Hotel Neath
  • France
    • Paris >
      • La Relais du Louvre
      • L'Hotel
      • Hotel Balzac
      • Hotel Scribe
      • Le Meurice
      • Hotel Opera Richepanse
      • Hotel d'Angleterre Paris
      • Victoria Palace Hotel
      • St James and Albany
      • The Ritz Paris
      • Hotel d'Aubusson
      • The Aviatic Hotel
      • Hotel Edouard VII
      • Hotellerie du Bas Breau
    • Alsace and Lorraine >
      • Hotel de l'Europe of Strasbourg
      • Cour du Corbeau
      • Hotel du Dragon
      • Hotel des Deux Clefs
      • Le Marechal of Colmar
      • Chateau Alteville
    • Aquitaine >
      • Chateau Lamothe du Prince Noir
      • Grand Hotel de Bordeaux
      • Du Palais Biarritz
      • Chateau d'Urtubie
      • Chateau Mas de Montet
    • Auvergne >
      • Chateau de Vollore
      • Chateau Royal de Saint Saturnin
    • Brittany >
      • La Maison Pavie
      • Chateau de la Ballue
      • Les Ajoncs d'Or
      • Symphonie des Sens
      • Domaine de Kerbastic
    • Burgundy and Franche Comte >
      • Hotel le Cep
      • Abbaye de la Bussiere
      • Chateau Villersexel
      • Hostellerie de la Poste
    • Centre >
      • Chateau des Arpentis
      • Chateau de Rochecotte
      • Chateau de Pray
      • Chateau de Chissay
      • Chateau de Noizay
      • Chateau de la Bourdaisiere
      • Chateau du Portail
    • Champagne Ardennes >
      • Chateau d'Etoges
      • La Maison de Rhodes
      • Hotellerie le Chateau Fort
    • Languedoc Roussillon >
      • Hotel de la Cite
      • Chateau des Ducs de Joyeuse
      • Chateau de Saint Michel de Lanes
      • Chateau Ayres
      • Chateau d'Arpaillargues
      • Domaine du Grand Malherbes
    • Midi Pyrenees >
      • Chateau de la Treyne
      • Le Grand Ecuyer
      • La Terrasse
      • Chateau de Goudourville
    • Normandy >
      • Grand Hotel Cabourg
      • Hostellerie du Chateau
      • Chateau les Bruyeres
      • Chateau de Sassetot
      • La Ferme St Simeon
      • La Maison de Lucie
      • Hotel le Cheval Blanc
    • Pays de la Loire >
      • Chateau de Saint Paterne
      • Chateau de la Barre
      • Manoir de Ponsay
      • La Maison Dovalle
      • Chateau de Boissimon
      • Chateau de l'Epinay
    • Picardy and Calais >
      • La Chartreuse du Val Saint Esprit
      • Chateau de Cocove Hotel
      • Hotel Clery Hesdin
      • Chateau de Fere
      • Chateau de Courcelles
    • Poitou Charentes and Limousin >
      • Chateau de Crazannes
      • Chateau de Mirambeau
      • Chateau de Nieuil
      • Pigeonnier du Perron
      • Chateau de Castel Novel
    • Provence >
      • Hotel Gounod
      • Hotel de Europe Avignon
      • Hotel Negresco
      • Beauvau Vieux Port Marseilles
      • Hostellerie Jerome
      • Chateau de Mazan
      • Chateau de la Pioline
      • Hotel des Augustins
    • Rhone Alpes >
      • Chateau de Bagnols
      • Abbaye de Talloires
      • La Clair de la Plume
  • Italy
    • Rome >
      • Albergo del Sole al Pantheon
      • Hotel de Russie
      • Grand Hotel de la Minerve
      • Bernini Bristol
      • Hotel d'Inghilterra
      • St Regis Grand Hotel
      • Hotel Eden
      • Antico Palazzo Rospigliosi
      • Castello della Castelluccia
    • Venice >
      • Hotel Danieli
      • Europa and Regina (now St. Regis)
      • Gritti Palace
      • Londra Palace
      • Palazzo Giovanelli
      • Locanda Vivaldi
      • Luna Baglioni
      • Al Ponte Antico
      • Villa Condulmer
      • Il Sogno di Giulietta Verona
      • Due Torri Verona
    • Florence >
      • Helvetia and Bristol Hotel
      • St Regis Florence
      • Hotel Porta Rossa
      • Astoria Florence
      • Hotel Degli Orafi
      • The Albergotto Hotel
      • Villa Aurora Fiesole
    • Tuscany >
      • Castello di Gargonza
      • Royal Victoria Hotel
      • Grand Hotel Continental Siena
      • Castello delle Serre
      • Castello di Gabbiano
      • Aia Mattonata Relais
      • Relais la Suvera
    • Umbria >
      • Castello di Petroia
      • Bosone Palace Hotel
      • Eremo delle Grazie
      • Brufani Palace
      • Castello di Monterone
      • Torre dei Calzolari
    • Southern Italy >
      • Hotel Luna Convento
      • Palazzo Murat
      • Grand Hotel Parkers
      • Grand Hotel Vesuvio
      • Grand Hotel Excelsior Vittoria
      • Imperial Hotel Tramontano
      • Grand Hotel Cocumella
      • Hotel Palumbo Ravello
    • Piemonte and Liguria >
      • Hotel Splendido Portofino
      • Imperiale Palace Hotel
      • La Sosta di Ottone III
      • Grand Hotel Majestic
      • Castello di Sinio
      • Palazzo Lovera
      • Castello San Giuseppe
      • Hotel Cannobio
    • Lombardy and Trentino >
      • Grand Hotel et de Milan
      • Grand Hotel Villa Serbelloni
      • Castello di Casiglio Erba
      • Grand Hotel Villa dEste
      • Grand Hotel Gardone
      • Hotel Post Bruneck
      • Parkhotel Laurin
      • Goldener Adler Bressanone
      • Castello di Carimate
    • Emilia Romagna >
      • Palazzo Dalla Rosa Prati
      • Grand Hotel Majestic Gia Baglioni
      • Hotel Annunziata Ferrara
      • Hotel Posta
      • Ala d'Oro
    • Sicily >
      • Grand Hotel Timeo
      • San Domenico Palace
      • Eremo Della Giubiliana
      • Grand Villa Politi
  • Spain
    • Northern Spain >
      • San Francisco Hotel Monumento
      • Hostal dos Reis Catolicos
      • Hotel Maria Cristina
      • Hotel de Londres y Inglaterra
      • Parador de Hondarribia
      • Gran Hotel La Perla
      • Palacio de Luces
      • Palacio de Prelo
      • Hotel Casa del Marques
    • Southern Spain >
      • Las Casas de la Juderia
      • Hotel Alfonso XIII
      • Hotel Inglaterra Seville
      • Parador de Granada
      • Palacio de Mariana Pineda
      • Parador de Jaen
    • Madrid and Castile y Leon >
      • Ritz Hotel Madrid
      • Parador de la Granja
      • San Antonio El Real Segovia
      • Parador de Lerma
      • Castillo del Buen Amor
    • Central Spain >
      • Parador de Alarcon
      • Parador de Siguenza
      • Hotel Boutique Condes Fucares
      • Palacio Eugenia de Montijo
      • Casa de Orellana Trujillo
      • Parador Jarandilla de la Vera
    • Barcelona and Eastern Spain >
      • Palace Hotel Barcelona
      • Parador de Alcaniz
      • La Posada del Mar Valencia
      • Palau lo Mirador Hotel
      • Castell d'Emporda Hotel
      • Can Cuadros
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  • Portugal
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  • Switzerland
    • Gasthof Hirschen Eglisau
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Listings are by surname except in the case of kings, queens and other monarchs. Hotels and other accommodation marked with an asterisk (*) denotes a particularly strong connection with the specific individual. Accommodation is within the United Kingdom unless stated otherwise.

Photograph of George Bernard ShawGeorge Bernard Shaw
Sands, George. 1804 - 1876. Pseudonym of Amantine Lucille Dupin, French novelist and essayist. Grand Hotel Beauvau Vieux Port (France) | Grand Hotel de la Minerve (Italy) | Hotel Danieli of Venice (Italy)

Sartre, Jean Paul. 1905 – 1980. French philosopher who is also noted as a playwright and novelist. Weisses Kreuz (Austria) | Albergo del Sole al Pantheon (Italy)

Satie, Erik. 1866 – 1925. Celebrated French pianist who is also famous for being the composer of the three Gymnopedies. Domaine du Grand Malherbes (France)

Sayers, Dorothy L. 1893 – 1857. English writer and poet most renowned for her character Lord Peter Wimsey. The Ship Inn

Scott, Robert Falcon. 1868 – 1912. Officer of the Royal Navy most well-known for his ill-fated “Terra Nova” expedition to Antarctica. Royal Hotel Cardiff | Reid’s Palace (Portugal)

Scott, Sir Walter. 1771 – 1832. Celebrated Scottish poet and novelist whose most famous works include Ivanhoe and The Heart of Midlothian. Swan of Grasmere | George of Stamford | Dalhousie Castle | Spread Eagle of Jedburgh | Kings Arms at Lockerbie | Imperial Tramontano (Italy) | Imperial Hotel Cork (Republic of Ireland)

Seymour, Jane. 1509 - 1537. Third wife of King Henry VIII who died shortly after the birth of her son (later Edward VI). Littlecote House | Rollestone Manor

Shackleton, Sir Ernest. 1974 – 1922. Iconic explorer most famous for his Antarctic expeditions. Channing’s Hotel

Shakespeare, William. 1564 - 1616. Undoubtedly the world’s most celebrated playwright whose works include Troilus and Cressida, The Taming of the Shrew and Othello. Shakespeare House | Spread Eagle of Midhurst | *Alveston Manor | White Swan at Stratford

Shaw, George Bernard. 1856 – 1950. Nobel Prize-winning Irish writer, particularly of plays, whose most notable works include Pygmalion. Cliveden | The Housel Bay Hotel | Grand Hotel Parker’s (Italy) | Reid’s Palace (Portugal)

Photograph of Robert Louis StevensonR L Stevenson (Knox Series)
Shelley, Percy Bysshe. 1792 – 1822. Influential romantic poet who drowned and was famously cremated on a beach in Tuscany, Italy. *Shelley’s | Plas Dolmelynllyn | Imperial Tramontano (Italy) | Hotel d’Inghilterra (Italy)

Simpson, Wallis. 1896 – 1986. American socialite who became the wife of the former King Edward VIII who had abdicated in order to marry her. Nidd Hall | Schloss Velden (Austria)

Slanning, Sir Nicholas. 1606 – 1643. Politician and Royalist commander during the English Civil War who was killed during the siege of Bristol. *Trerose Manor

Smith DeVoe, Emma. 1848 - 1927. Famous American suffragist who later became a member of the Republican Party. DeVoe Mansion (USA)

Southey, Robert. 1774 – 1843. Romantic poet and biographer who also created the children’s story of Goldilocks and the Three Bears. The Ship Inn at Porlock | The Old House | Swinton Park

Spencer, William. 1770 – 1834. English writer and poet noted for his humour and associations with figures in high-society. Crewe Hall

Stalin, Josef. 1878 – 1952. Controversial Communist Premier of the Soviet Union from 1941 *Cecilienhof (Germany)

Stanley, Henry. 1841 – 1904. Journalist and adventurer who is famous for the lines “Dr. Livingstone, I presume”. The Langham London

Steinbeck, John. 1902 – 1968. Pulitzer and Nobel Prize-winning American author most noted for his works The Grapes of Wrath, Of Mice and Men and East of Eden. Palazzo Murat (Italy)

Stevenson, Robert Louis. 1850 – 1894. Iconic Scottish writer who is responsible for several of the most enduring stories in the English language, including Treasure Island and The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. Burford Bridge Hotel | *Stevenson House | Kings Arms of Dorchester | Le Meurice (France) | Hotellerie du Bas Breau (France) | Drei Mohren (Germany) Vichy Springs Resort (USA)

Photograph of Bram StokerBram Stoker
Steward, Elizabeth. 1564? – 1654. Mother of English Civil War protagonist Oliver Cromwell. *The Old Hall at Ely

Stoker, Bram. 1847 – 1912. Irish writer who is best known for his world famous novel, Dracula. The Bay Royal | Kilmarnock Arms | The Shelbourne (Republic of Ireland)

Stowe, Harriet Beecher. 1811 – 1896. American anti-slavery campaigner who wrote the novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin. Imperial Tramontano (Italy) | Buxton Inn (USA)

Strauss, Richard. 1864 – 1949. German composer of classical music whose most famous works include Also sprach Zarathustra (used in 2001: A Space Odyssey). Sacher Salzburg (Austria) | Brenner’s Park (Germany) | Montreux Palace Hotel (Switzerland) | Intercontinental Amstel (Netherlands)

Stravinsky, Igor Fyodorovich. 1882 – 1971. Russian-born classical music icon who later lived in France and America. Du Palais Biarritz (France) | Domaine de Kerbastic (France) | Hotel de Russie (Italy)

Stuart, Charles Edward. 1720 – 1788. Better known as “Bonnie Prince Charlie” - leader of the Jacobite Rebellion which resulted in defeat at the Battle of Culloden and his exile from Britain. *Culloden House | Traquair | Kings Arms at Lockerbie | The George Hotel of Penrith

Sundance Kid, The. 1867 – 1908? Legendary Wild West outlaw and train robber, real name Harry Longabaugh, whose partnership with Butch Cassidy is well-known. The Occidental (USA)

Swift, Jonathan. 1667 – 1745. Anglo-Irish polymath best known for his book Gulliver’s Travels. Old Inn at Crawfordsburn

Swinburne, Algernon. 1837 – 1909. English writer who is celebrated for being the creator of the “roundel” form of poetry. Rose and Crown


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