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9: The Lygon Arms Hotel
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From: The Lygon Arms Hotel
The Lygon Arms was established as
an inn in 1532 by the Whyte family and is located at the edge of the green.
During the time of the infamous King Henry VIII it was known as the White
Hart Inn.
From its very beginning the Inn was
always exclusive . . . William Shakespeare is said to have passed
through Broadway many a time and stopped by at the Inn on his journey from
Stratford-upon-Avon to his beloved Globe Theatre, on the banks of the River
Thames.
The Battle of Worcester, the final
and decisive battle of the great Civil War, was fought on the evening of
September 3rd, 1651. It is believed that Oliver Cromwell stayed at the
White Hart Inn in Broadway that night, in the room which now bears his
name.
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Arms Hotel)
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