The Bull
Burford, Oxfordshire, England.
On this site since the early 17th century – though operating as licensed premises for at least 200 years before that – The Bull Hotel is one of Oxfordshire’s most celebrated old inns. Indeed, the place is quite rightly Grade II* listed with the English Heritage listing describing it as a coaching inn with a “mediaeval core; largely rebuilt c.1620”
It is said that Lord Nelson and Lady Hamilton stayed here in 1802 while visiting Oxford, and the hotel’s Trafalgar Room is believed to be that in which they spent their time. Other notable visitors include King Charles II (Nell Gwynne is purported to have conveniently lived in the town) and the acclaimed artist, William Morris who stayed in September 1876.
Another figure known to have stayed was the controversial American publisher Samuel Sidney McClure. Writing in his journal, The Wheelman, in 1883, he describes reaching the hotel after a difficult day of travelling from Chipping Norton: "only did 58 miles to-day, which required as much doing as 80 miles on a fine day with fair roads... the rain began falling in torrents and thus ended my chance of a good day's distance."
Burford itself is the epitome of a small Cotswold town, and many of the area’s most notable other villages and towns such as Bibury, Bourton-on-the-Water and Stow-on-the-Wold are within easy reach by car.
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It is said that Lord Nelson and Lady Hamilton stayed here in 1802 while visiting Oxford, and the hotel’s Trafalgar Room is believed to be that in which they spent their time. Other notable visitors include King Charles II (Nell Gwynne is purported to have conveniently lived in the town) and the acclaimed artist, William Morris who stayed in September 1876.
Another figure known to have stayed was the controversial American publisher Samuel Sidney McClure. Writing in his journal, The Wheelman, in 1883, he describes reaching the hotel after a difficult day of travelling from Chipping Norton: "only did 58 miles to-day, which required as much doing as 80 miles on a fine day with fair roads... the rain began falling in torrents and thus ended my chance of a good day's distance."
Burford itself is the epitome of a small Cotswold town, and many of the area’s most notable other villages and towns such as Bibury, Bourton-on-the-Water and Stow-on-the-Wold are within easy reach by car.
See the Historic Hotels in Oxfordshire index
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