Inn · Moreton-in-Marsh
The White Hart Royal Hotel
An old coaching inn on Moreton-in-Marsh's High Street, where tradition says Charles I stayed, with a courtyard restaurant and accessible rooms.
Dog-friendly · Car-free · Wedding venues
Accessible rooms, food all day and a walk from the station. No parking of its own, so it suits arriving by train.
- Good: One purpose-designed accessible double room
- Good: Food all day from 7.30am, every day
- Good: Dogs in the bar, up to two for £15 a night
- Worth knowing: No on-site parking; use Old Market Way
- Worth knowing: Dog rooms booked by phone
About
The White Hart Royal is an old coaching inn on the High Street in Moreton-in-Marsh, a few doors from the Curfew Tower. Historic England dates it to the sixteenth century, remodelled in the seventeenth and again in the eighteenth, with a carriage arch through to a cobbled coachway. Tradition says Charles I stayed here during the Civil War; the royalist army did pass through the town in 1644, but the Victoria County History calls the stay unproven. It is run by the Coaching Inn Group.
Rooms range from small doubles to deluxe doubles, some with four-poster beds or private gardens, and include Classic Accessible Doubles with accessible bathrooms. Every room has free wifi, a smart TV and a Roberts radio. Rates come with or without breakfast. Check-in is from 3pm and check-out by 11am. Dogs stay for £15 a room a night, up to two, in rooms booked by phone.
Food runs all day, from breakfast at 7.30am to dinner, in the Courtyard Restaurant, which serves seasonal British cooking, and the Snug Bar with its inglenook fireplace, where dogs are welcome. There are brunch, lunch, dinner, Sunday lunch and children's menus, and afternoon tea from £24.95 if booked. The inn has no car park of its own; guests use the town car park on Station Road, two or three minutes' walk away. It hosts weddings and meetings.
Opening hours and season
Bar
| Monday | 07:30 to 23:00 |
|---|---|
| Tuesday | 07:30 to 23:00 |
| Wednesday | 07:30 to 23:00 |
| Thursday | 07:30 to 23:00 |
| Friday | 07:30 to 23:00 |
| Saturday | 07:30 to 23:00 |
| Sunday | 07:30 to 23:00 |
Restaurant
| Monday | 07:30 to 21:30 |
|---|---|
| Tuesday | 07:30 to 21:30 |
| Wednesday | 07:30 to 21:30 |
| Thursday | 07:30 to 21:30 |
| Friday | 07:30 to 21:30 |
| Saturday | 07:30 to 21:30 |
| Sunday | 07:30 to 21:30 |
Food served all day; the home page gives 9pm, the food page 9.30pm.
Afternoon tea from £24.95, booked ahead.
The details
- Food
- Modern British
- Serving
- Breakfast · Brunch · Lunch · Afternoon tea · Dinner · Sunday lunch
- Dietary
- Children's menu
- Booking a table
- Booking recommended
- Check-in
- From 3pm
- Check-out
- By 11am
- Features
- Restaurant · Bar · Garden or terrace · Events and meetings · Accessible rooms · Dogs in rooms · Dogs inside · Wi-Fi
- History
- Sixteenth-century inn, remodelled in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
- Parking
- No on-site parking. Old Market Way car park on Station Road (GL56 0JY) is a two or three minute walk, open all day and night, with EV chargers nearby.
- Without a car
- In the town centre, a short walk from Moreton-in-Marsh railway station.
Photos
The courtyard garden 
A bedroom 
Afternoon tea 
Sunday roast
Location
Nearby walks, places and things to do
- The Black Bear Inn 0.1 km away
- The Redesdale 0.1 km away
- Huffkins, Moreton-in-Marsh 0.1 km away
- The Swan Inn, Moreton 0.2 km away
Sights nearby
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Curfew Tower, Moreton-in-Marsh
Sight · Historic building · Moreton-in-Marsh
The Curfew Tower is a small sixteenth-century stone bell tower on the corner of Moreton-in-Marsh's High Street and Oxford Street, perhaps the town's oldest public building, with a bell of 1633, a clock of 1648 and a past as the town lock-up.
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Redesdale Hall, Moreton-in-Marsh
Sight · Historic building · Moreton-in-Marsh
Redesdale Hall is Moreton-in-Marsh's market hall of 1887, standing in the middle of the High Street: designed by Sir Ernest George for Bertie Mitford of Batsford, later Lord Redesdale, with an arched ground floor, a clock turret and a tall chimney. Listed Grade II.
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St Mary's Church, Batsford
Sight · Church · Moreton-in-Marsh
St Mary's is the estate church of Batsford, near Moreton-in-Marsh: rebuilt in 1861 and 1862 for the Mitford family in a neo-Norman style, with a spired tower, an apsidal chancel, Kempe glass and monuments to the Freemans and Mitfords. Grade II*.
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St Peter and St Paul, Blockley
Sight · Church · Blockley
St Peter and St Paul is Blockley's church by the square, founded about 800 by its own account: a late twelfth-century chancel, medieval brasses, Childe and Rushout monuments and a tower of 1725 to 1727 attributed to the Woodwards. Grade II*, open daily and Father Brown's church.