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The Golden Lion Hotel | St Ives |Golden Lion Hotel Market Hill, St Ives, Bedfordshire, PE27 5AL, EnglandCompare Prices for this Hotel
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The Golden Lion Hotel originally dates from the 19th Century as a conventional Coaching Inn in the heart of the Cambridgeshire market town of St Ives. The hotel is referred to as one a leading hotel in St Ives in the 1893 travel book The Official Guide to the Great Eastern Railway . Lighters or horse-drawn barges to you and I were used to bring coal from the port of Kings Lynn before returning back with corn. During the 17th and 18th centuries St Ives became an key waterway route. The present parish church of All Saints which is just a short distance from us was rebuilt in the 15th century which some say is on the site of an old Anglo-Saxon church. The original Anglo-Saxon settlement was at the west end of the contemporary town we know today. The first Anglo-Saxon settlers are believed to have arrived in the 5th or 6th century where they names their settlement Slepe - meaning muddy. The Inn boasts many period features throughout including: History of the Town The St Ives district has been inhabited since Stone Ages where the remains of a Roman villa have been found. Compare Prices for this HotelFACILITIES:- The Golden Lion Hotel | St Ives |Golden Lion Hotel Market Hill, St Ives, Bedfordshire, PE27 5AL, England
The Golden Lion Hotel | St Ives |Golden Lion Hotel Market Hill, St Ives, Bedfordshire, PE27 5AL, England
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