Hotel Victoria, Holywell
Introduction
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Hotel Victoria, Holywell
Image: © John S Turner Taken: 8 Feb 2011
Although its address is Coleshill Street, Hotel Victoria stands in a prime position facing north west along High Street, and it looks splendid in the low winter sun. It is a Grade II listed building and following a five-year period of closure it was refurbished and re-opened in 2010. It was named the King's Arms Hotel on the 1871 Town Plan, and once had a 1GL bench mark on a guardstone on the left-hand/north-west corner of the building. The guardstone would have been essential in the days before pavements, but with the advent of pavements, first shown on the 1963 O.S. map, the stone would have been an inconvenience to pedestrians. The bench mark disappeared from the same 1963 map, no doubt along with the removal of the stone.
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Image Location
Latitude
53.272662
Longitude
-3.220281
