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Minster Lovell
The Village
Close to the city of
Oxford
Fax: 01993 702002
Off the main A40
trunk road from
London to the
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he Mill & Old Swan offers a satisfying blend of Cotswold stone
and half-timbering dating back 600 years. The River Windrush glides
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| its threshold. Here generations of sheep drovers have paused on their
way to the great sheep fairs farther east, to water their flocks and slake their own
thirst. For the animals the water sufficed; for themselves it had to be good ale, brewed
until little more than a century ago beneath this roof. The old brew house is now the
dining room and the water came from a well still to be found beneath the old tap-room
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Oxfordshire's leading
corporate training centre,
the Mill & Old Swan provides the highest standards of
both facilities and accommodation for conferences and
business training.
THE
DINING ROOM
A TASTE OF THE COTSWOLDS
Savour the delightful surroundings of the Swan
Restaurant and choose from a wide selection of imaginative menus. Alternatively you may
like to enjoy the intimacy of one of our private dining rooms where we cater for small
weddings, individual & corporate parties and business lunches. |
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| Where bedrooms are now to be found - there
are 63 all en-suite - there was formally a great room used as a granary in days gone by.
The other building was the fortified manor house of the ancient family, the Lovells.
Intimates of |
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Richard III, they
entertained him at the manor house while his retainers slept at the Inn. Evidence of this
friendship was discovered when plaster was removed from a bedroom wall to reveal a glowing
painted mural of "The Sun in Splendour" - Richard III's badge. This room is now
appropriately named Richard III. The badge can be seen over the fireplace of what was
formerly the brew house. (Now the Swan restaurant). |
| The Manor house and priory are now in ruins
but the Inn remains gloriously intact. Centuries old coins, hand forged nails, iron
latches, ornate hinges, flintlock pistols and other relics of those days turn up from time
to time and many are on display. General Manager: Amy Gardner : Deputy
General Manager: Marianna Long |
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facilities and training courses on our official web-site. Click the logo below to view in
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Best Choice in
Training &
Conference Centres
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For bookings contact Diane Cornish
01993 774441
In recent years the hotel has
welcomed:
Sir Winston Churchill
Harold Wilson and his wife who spent
part of their honeymoon here.
Others include:
Dame Judy Dench
Sir Andre Previn
David Jacobs
David Colman
Jimmy Hill
Macdonald Hobley
Tony Britton
Pam Ayres
Bamber Gascoigne
and the columnist Claire Rayner
who also spent her honeymoon here.
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