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Woodstock's hotels and inns are a short walk from the gates of Blenheim Palace, most of them on Market Street, Park Street, the High Street and Oxford Street.
6 places
Hotel · Woodstock
A Macdonald hotel in a Grade II* listed old inn on Park Street, Woodstock: 54 rooms with four-posters and suites, a restaurant, afternoon tea and dogs welcome, a short walk from Blenheim.
Dog-friendly · Wedding venues
Verified Nov 2026
Inn · Woodstock
An inn on Woodstock's High Street, in a building it describes as Grade II listed and eighteenth century, with five en-suite rooms, a three-bedroom cottage, a townhouse apartment and a restaurant.
Wedding venues
Verified Oct 2026
Inn · Woodstock
A family and dog-friendly pub with thirteen rooms and a large car park at Woodleys, on the A44 just north of Woodstock.
Dog-friendly · Family-friendly
Verified Nov 2026
Hotel · Woodstock
A hotel with 18 rooms and five suites on Market Street, Woodstock, with two AA Rosettes and a Michelin Key, a few minutes from Blenheim's gates.
Verified Nov 2026
Inn · Woodstock
A Fuller's inn with 15 rooms on the corner of Market Street, Woodstock, in a Grade II listed building, with dogs welcome and breakfast included.
Dog-friendly · Car-free
Verified Oct 2026
Inn · Woodstock
A family-run Arkell's pub with nine rooms, most of them family rooms, on Oxford Street, Woodstock, with EV charging and dogs welcome.
Dog-friendly · Family-friendly · EV charging
Verified Oct 2026
The Feathers on Market Street has 18 rooms and five suites, the Nest restaurant and the Aviary, a bar and restaurant with a courtyard. The Bear on Park Street, a Macdonald hotel with a restaurant and a courtyard bar, takes dogs in any room.
The King's Arms on Market Street is a Fuller's inn with 15 rooms that takes dogs, and The Punchbowl on Oxford Street, a family-run Arkell's pub, has nine rooms, most of them family rooms, and takes dogs at £15 each. The Crown on the High Street has five rooms, a three-bedroom cottage and a townhouse apartment, and The Duke of Marlborough on the edge of town is a family pub with thirteen rooms.
Blenheim Palace is a walk away, and its ticket lasts a year, so staying for two days costs no more. The Oxfordshire Museum is free, and look up at St Mary Magdalene's sundial, which writes seven as IIV. From mid-November to early January, Christmas at Blenheim Palace has a light trail with timed entry, and parking must be booked too.
The S3 runs about hourly from Oxford station to Blenheim's gate, and with the S7 there are about four buses an hour from Oxford city centre. The S7 also links Woodstock with Hanborough station and Witney. Hensington Road car park is free, with four-hour and ten-hour bays and 12 charging bays. Arriving by bus, train or bike earns 20 per cent off a Palace, Park and Gardens ticket bought online with the code GREEN20. For other bases, see where to stay in the Cotswolds.
Blenheim's Christmas light trail, from mid-November to early January, is one of the busiest times in the town, so book rooms early for it.
Blenheim's park is more than 2,000 acres, with marked walks from a 0.75-mile lakeside stroll to a 4.6-mile walk round the park perimeter by the High Park woodland. Dogs are welcome on leads in the park, though not in the palace or formal gardens, which makes the dog-friendly inns in the town a good fit.
Rooms fill for the Blenheim Palace International Horse Trials in mid-September. For the day, see things to do in the Oxfordshire Cotswolds, and for meals, places to eat in the Oxfordshire Cotswolds.
For food in the town itself, see places to eat in Woodstock.
Walks and sights within reach of your room.
Walk · Starts in Woodstock · Circular
A 1.1-mile (1.7km) easy heritage loop round Woodstock from the stocks in Park Street to Hawksmoor's Woodstock Gate into Blenheim, along the coaching inns of Oxford Street and Market Street to the Town Hall and the Hensington Gate, and back through the churchyard.
Walk · Starts in Woodstock · 2 hrs · Circular
A 4.5-mile (7.2km) circular walk from Bladon round Blenheim's park, about two hours, easy and on estate roads. It crosses New Bridge, goes through High Park to Vanbrugh's Grand Bridge, past the palace and back by the walled garden. About half needs a Park and Gardens ticket.
Walk · Starts in Woodstock · 3 hrs · Circular
A 6.7-mile (10.8km) circular walk from Combe, moderate and about three hours: over stiled fields to East End, into Blenheim Park, mostly on its public footpaths, past Fair Rosamund's Well and the lake, north to the park wall and back down the western edge to Combe's green.
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In Woodstock: the Feathers, the Bear and the King's Arms are a walk from the palace gates.
Yes: the Bear, the King's Arms, the Punchbowl and the Duke of Marlborough, and the Feathers in its dog-friendly rooms.
Yes, at Hensington Road car park, with four-hour and ten-hour bays and 12 charging bays.
A small town of stone houses at the gates of Blenheim Palace, Churchill's birthplace and a World Heritage Site, with a free county museum and two old sundials.
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