Description:
This Tudor Gothic style hotel was built as an inn in 1451. Room have loads of original features - half timbering and oaken beams, sloping floors. There are five rooms, all with ensuite bathrooms. One has an antique four-poster bed. You won't find flat screen TVs or high speed internet here but you will find atmosphere and amazing historical connections aplenty.
Address:
High street
Elham Near Canterbury
Kent CT4 6TD
UK
Telephone:
+44 (0)1303 840265
Price Band:
$ Spend a little more for the lovely 4-poster room.
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The Medieval Restaurant:
A key feature of the restaurant is a huge, medieval fireplace, some of which dates from the 15th century and some of which was taken from a bishop's palace at the beginning of the 16th century. Nightly, a variety of meats are spit roasted on a multiple spit device in this historic fireplace. The bottom beam of the fireplace, the oldest, is carved with Jonah and the Whale.
Duke of Wellington Slept Here:
Before the Battle of Waterloo, in the early 19th century, The Duke of Wellington used the Abbot's Fireside as his headquarters. Here, possibly warming his feet by the huge fireplace, he prepared for the historic battle that resulted in the defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte.
Earlier, in the 17th century, King Charles II, fleeing Oliver Cromwell's Roundheads with his loyal companion the Duke of Richmond, is said to have hidden in the medieval fireplace.
