The Bell Inn, Long Hanborough Explained

51.825°N -1.386°WThe Bell Inn, Long Hanborough is a well-established^[1] Grade II listed^[2] restaurant and public house in the village of Long Hanborough, Oxfordshire, England.^[3]

The Bell borders the grounds of Blenheim Palace, Woodstock where Sir Winston Churchill was born. It is approximately 5miles from Witney.It was renovated in 2008, providing an open-plan interior with bar and restaurant. Outside, there are views over the Evenlode Valley.

The pub featured in a food riot by women at the turn of the 19th century.^[4]

Parts of the building date from the seventeenth century, but it has been extended and modified subsequently.^[5]

External links

• The Bell – Long Hanborough, (Facebook entry)
• West Oxfordshire Community Web listing

Notes and References

1. E. R. Kelly (editor), The Post Office Directory of Northamptonshire, Huntingdonshire, Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Berkshire, and Oxfordshire, London: Kelly & Co., 1869. Page 870.
2. https://britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/101367931-the-bell-inn-hanborough BritishlistedBuildings retrieved 9 April 2021
3. http://cotswolds.openguides.org/wiki/wiki.cgi?The_Bell_Inn,_Long_Hanborough The Bell Inn, Long Hanborough
4. John Bohstedt, The Myth of the Feminine Food Riot: Women as Proto-Citizens in English Community Politics, 1790–1810, page 26. In Harriet Branson Applewhite, Darline G. Levy, Women and Politics in the Age of the Democratic Revolution. The University of Michigan Press, 1990. .
5. https://britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/101367931-the-bell-inn-hanborough BritishlistedBuildings retrieved 9 April 2021