Inn · Woodstock
The Crown, 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
Rooms for two, or a cottage for a family, in the middle of the High Street with a restaurant downstairs and Blenheim's gate a few minutes' walk away.
- Good: Five rooms, a three-bedroom cottage and a townhouse apartment
- Good: Restaurant open to non-residents, with Sunday lunch
- Good: Free Wi-Fi throughout
- Worth knowing: Crown Cottage is booked by phone only
- Worth knowing: No parking or dog policy published
About
The Crown is an inn at 31 High Street, in a building it describes as Grade II listed and eighteenth century, in Woodstock, with five en-suite rooms above a restaurant, plus a three-bedroom house, Crown Cottage, and a townhouse apartment.
The rooms and the cottage have super-king beds, bar one king, with a Lefroy Brooks shower or bath, Egyptian cotton, robes, a smart TV and fresh coffee; there is free Wi-Fi throughout. Rooms are booked online or by email. Crown Cottage, which suits a family or a group of friends, is booked by phone.
The restaurant serves breakfast, a weekday lunch, dinner and a Sunday lunch, and tables can be booked online, through OpenTable or by phone. The Crown also hosts weddings, with its own package.
It is a few minutes' walk along the High Street and Park Street to the gate of Blenheim Palace, past Woodstock Town Hall and St Mary Magdalene. The Woodstock town walk starts close by.
The details
- Serving
- Breakfast · Lunch · Dinner · Sunday lunch
- Rooms
- 5
- Features
- Restaurant · Bar · Wi-Fi
- History
- 18th-century building, by its own account
Photos
A bedroom 
A bedroom corner 
A bathroom 
A larger room
Location
Nearby walks, places and things to do
- Brothertons Brasserie
- The Missing Bean, Woodstock 0.0 km away
- The Feathers 0.0 km away
- The Woodstock Arms 0.1 km away
Sights nearby
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Woodstock Town Hall
Sight · Historic building · Woodstock
Woodstock Town Hall in the Market Place was designed by Sir William Chambers and built in 1766 to 1767 at the Duke of Marlborough's expense, over an open market hall enclosed in 1898, with a marble sundial on its south wall. Grade II.
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St Mary Magdalene, Woodstock
Sight · Church · Woodstock
St Mary Magdalene is Woodstock's church on Park Street, founded with the twelfth-century town and long a chapel of Bladon, with a Norman zigzag doorway, a classical tower of 1784 to 1786 with chimes of 1792 made to play tunes, and a sundial with odd numerals. Grade II*.
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Queen Pool, Blenheim
Sight · Lake · Woodstock
Queen Pool is the northern arm of the lake Capability Brown made at Blenheim from 1764, above Vanbrugh's Grand Bridge, with Rosamund's Well just west of the bridge and the Column of Victory above. Reached free on public footpaths from Combe; the lakeside road is permissive.
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Column of Victory, Blenheim
Sight · Monument · Woodstock
The Column of Victory is the fluted Doric column of 1727 to 1730 that carries a lead statue of the first Duke of Marlborough dressed as a Roman general on the high ground of Blenheim's park. Seen from Woodstock and the park's public paths.