The Bear Hotel
Woodstock, Oxfordshire, England.
It’s a lot more pleasing on the eye than neighbouring Blenheim, if you ask us.
Standing many centuries before the aforementioned grand monument to self-congratulation was built, The Bear is, without doubt, one of Britain’s most attractive old coaching inns. Alas, though the hotel is said to have played host to numerous famous figures over its long history, there is no record available at present of whom they might have been. That said, we do know that the 19th century American author Nathaniel Hawthorne briefly visited the place on his travels:
"The Black Bear is an ancient inn, large and respectable, with balustraded staircases, and intricate passages and corridors, and queer old pictures and engravings hanging in the entries and apartments. We ordered a lunch (the most delightful of English institutions, next to dinner) to be ready against our return, and then resumed our drive to Blenheim".
It should also be noted that it was at The Bear that Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor sought to escape media attention during their famous love affair. Visit The Bear Hotel website
See the Historic Hotels in Oxfordshire index
Standing many centuries before the aforementioned grand monument to self-congratulation was built, The Bear is, without doubt, one of Britain’s most attractive old coaching inns. Alas, though the hotel is said to have played host to numerous famous figures over its long history, there is no record available at present of whom they might have been. That said, we do know that the 19th century American author Nathaniel Hawthorne briefly visited the place on his travels:
"The Black Bear is an ancient inn, large and respectable, with balustraded staircases, and intricate passages and corridors, and queer old pictures and engravings hanging in the entries and apartments. We ordered a lunch (the most delightful of English institutions, next to dinner) to be ready against our return, and then resumed our drive to Blenheim".
It should also be noted that it was at The Bear that Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor sought to escape media attention during their famous love affair. Visit The Bear Hotel website
See the Historic Hotels in Oxfordshire index
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