The Shoe Inn

Salisbury Road, Plaitford, near Romsey, Hampshire, SO51 6EE

Phone: +44 (0)1794 322397
Fax: +44 (0)1794 322405
Visit Britain 4 Stars

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The Shoe Inn is the perfect retreat for a relaxing weekend away or a comfortable over night stop. We have 5 charming bedrooms, all tastefully decorated with en-suite bathrooms, colour television and tea/coffee facilities.

Usually larger, Group-style hotels where more formal levels of service would be expected.

Accommodation of a very high standard, offering a wide range of facilities and services, with quality to match. All bedrooms will be designed and furnished for comfort and ease of use with very good quality furniture, beds and soft furnishings. All rooms en-suite with at least half offering a bath in addition to shower facilities. At least one suite available.

Service will reflect the same quality and attention to detail. Access all day and night. Staff offering a proactive style of service. Catering standards will reflect a serious approach to food and drink, with table service provided in bar and/or lounge. At least one restaurant, open to residents and non-residents, for breakfast and dinner seven days a week.

Tariff includes continental breakfast. Full English breakfast is charged at £5.00 per person.

Breakfast between 7.00 am and 9.30 am

Rooms must be vacated at 11.00 am on the date of departure.

Bookings only can be taken accompanied by a valid credit card.

Cancellations may be made up to 12 noon on the day before arrival without charge, after this a charge of £20.00 per person will be made, cancellations after 2.00pm on day of arrival will be charged the full price.

All rooms are non smoking

If you manage to negotiate the busy main road between the car park and the front door, your bravery will be well rewarded. The Shoe Inn is a very friendly pub, steeped with history and should not be missed on a visit to the Forest. A beautifully-crafted thatched roof protects the original inn. Built in 1420 the Shoe Inn took its name from the cavalry troops who frequented it when travelling from the garrison in Salisbury to the port of Marchwood. Seen from the main road, it’s an attractive black-and-cream half-timber structure, built around 1640 when the inn became a posting station for mail coaches. A toll-gate was constructed across the road and the landlord made responsible for collecting the King’s tolls.

The last New Forest highwayman, John Taylor, was caught while drinking at the pub and publicly hanged on the nearby Plaitford Common. Queen Victoria who stopped here on route to the Isle of Wight.

Alongside the building runs what used to be the main road between Salisbury and Southampton. The interior of The Shoe Inn is quite as inviting as the outside, as olde-worlde as you could wish with its real fires and many bygones on display.

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