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Spread Eagle Hotel, Midhurst
Spread Eagle Hotel, Midhurst, West Sussex
Parts of the Spread Eagle Hotel in Midhurst, West Sussex, date to 1430. Elizabeth I is supposed to have stayed at the Spread Eagle, her stay commemorated in the name of the Queen's Room above the lounge.
Historical novelist Anya Seton used the Spread Eagle as a setting in her story The Green Darkness. In this story a young American woman relives a former life as a barmaid at an English sixteenth century inn.
The Spread Eagle continues as a working hotel. It combines it's history with modern facilities.
Address: Spread Eagle Hotel, Midhurst, West Sussex GU29 9NH
Contact:
telephone: 01730 816911
fax: 01730 815668
e-mail: spreadeagle@hshotels.co.uk