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The Golden Lion Hotel - St Ives

Golden Lion Hotel Market Hill
St Ives PE27 5AL


 The Golden Lion Hotel originally dates from the 19th Century as a traditional Coaching Inn in the heart of the Cambridgeshire market town of St Ives. The hotel is referred to as one a leading hotel in St Ives in the 1893 travel book The Official Guide to the Great Eastern Railway . The Inn boasts many period features throughout including: History of the Town The St Ives district has been inhabited since Stone Ages where the remains of a Roman villa have been found. The first Anglo-Saxon settlers are believed to have arrived in the 5th or 6th century where they names their settlement Slepe - meaning muddy. The original Anglo-Saxon settlement was at the west end of the modern town we know today. The present parish church of All Saints which is just a short distance from us was rebuilt in the 15th century which some say is on the site of an old Anglo-Saxon church. During the 17th & 18th centuries St Ives became an key waterway route. Lighters or horse-drawn barges to you and I were used to bring coal from the port of Kings Lynn before returning back with corn. Herbert Norris a local historian wrote in 1888: St Ives was formerly the centre of a great river traffic. I have

Directions to The Golden Lion Hotel St Ives

When leaving the A14 between Cambridge and Huntingdon take the B1096 towards St Ives. At the roundabout (VW Audi Garage) continue straight ahead. At the next roundabout turn left. Follow the road into the town centre. At the pedestrian crossing turn right. You will find the Golden Lion Hotel on the left.

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