Two of the best known Hotels in Oxfordshire are in the city, the Mogford-owned Old Bank Hotel (formerly Barclays Bank in the High Street) and The Old Parsonage in the Banbury Road, dating back in part to the 16th century. In the same street is the 49-bedroom
Cotswold Lodge, with plenty of parking.
The University, Britain’s oldest, whose first colleges were founded in the12th century, attracts many visitors every year to its fine buildings, cloisters and museums. Most famous of all Hotels in Oxfordshire is Le Manoir aux Quat’Saisons in Milton, near the city. Here Raymond Blanc has created a cookery school, famous gardens and luxurious bedrooms.
The Oxford Thames Four Pillars Hotel at Sandford-on-Thames fits the bill for those business travellers looking for a Conference Hotel in Oxfordshire. Similarly Weston Manor in Weston-on-the-Green, just north of the city, has developed as a Wedding Hotel in Oxfordshire, with vaulted restaurant, minstrels’ gallery and original oak panelling. In the south of the city, Hawkwell House stands quietly in it own grounds, with de luxe bedrooms in a separate building. South-west of the city, the Fallowfield Country House, another family-owned Hotel in Oxfordshire in Kingston Bagpuize
has just ten bedrooms, with fine views and gardens.
East of the city, the fine old market town of Thame has the Spread Eagle Hotel, now under new ownership.