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| hotel_name         =The Bear Hotel
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| image              =The Bear Hotel in Woodstock.jpg
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| location           =[[Woodstock, Oxfordshire]], England
| pushpin_map_caption=Location in Oxfordshire
| address            = Park Street, Woodstock, Oxfordshire, OX20 ISZ
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| coordinates        = {{Coord|51.846734493370406|-1.356474601499631|display=title,inline|format=dms}}
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| opening_date       =13th century
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| operator           = MacDonald Hotels and Resorts
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| number_of_rooms    =53
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| number_of_restaurants = 1
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| website            = https://www.macdonaldhotels.co.uk/bear
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'''The Bear Hotel''' is a hotel in [[Woodstock, Oxfordshire]], located opposite [[The Oxfordshire Museum]], not far from [[Blenheim Palace]]. It is one of England's original 13th-century [[coaching inn]]s and has stone walls, oak beams, open fireplaces and an ivy facade. The hotel has 53 bedrooms and its restaurant has 2 A.A. Rosettes and 2 RAC Dining Awards.<ref name="EI">{{cite web|url=http://www.english-inns.co.uk/HauntedInns.htm|title=Reputedly Haunted Hotels and Inns|publisher=English Inns.co.uk|accessdate=16 December 2010| archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20101229030414/http://www.english-inns.co.uk/HauntedInns.htm| archivedate= 29 December 2010 | url-status= live}}</ref> It is run by MacDonald Hotels and Resorts. Notable guests include [[Richard Burton]] and [[Elizabeth Taylor]] who stayed at the hotel on many occasions in the Marlboro suite.<ref name="OM"/><ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AYT82eXH1l0C&pg=PA268|title=Frommer's England 2011|author=Porter, Darwin|author2=Prince, Danforth|publisher=Frommer's|page=268|year=2010|isbn=978-0-470-61538-6}}</ref>
==Local legend==
At least two of the bedrooms in the hotel are said to be haunted; room 16 is said to be haunted by a female ghost who turns lights on and off.<ref name="EI"/><ref name="OM">{{cite web|url=http://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/4713178.Ghostly_goings_on_in_haunted_county/|title=Ghostly goings-on in haunted county|work=Oxford Mail|date=31 October 2009|accessdate=16 December 2010}}</ref> Guests have reported their possessions being moved on many occasions in one of the rooms.<ref>{{cite book|title=A gazetteer of British ghosts:Frontiers of the unknown|author= Underwood, Peter|publisher=[[Souvenir Press]]|year=1971|page=271}}</ref> Also, employees are said to avoid being alone in the kitchen and the cellar at night.
==References==
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==External links==
*[https://www.macdonaldhotels.co.uk/our-hotels/south-england/woodstock/macdonald-bear-hotel Official site]
*{{cite book| last1=Crossley | first1=Alan | last2=Elrington | first2=C. R.|url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/oxon/vol12/pp342-360#h3-0042 | chapter=Woodstock: Buildings: The Bear Hotel | title=A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 12, Wootton Hundred (South) Including Woodstock | publisher=Victoria County History | pages=342–360|date=1990}}
[[Category:Buildings and structures completed in the 13th century]]
[[Category:Coaching inns]]
[[Category:Hotels in Oxfordshire]]
[[Category:Grade II* listed pubs in Oxfordshire]]
[[Category:Reportedly haunted locations in South East England]]
[[Category:Restaurants in Oxfordshire]]
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