Sort file:- Canterbury, March, 2021. |
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Page Updated Canterbury:- Sunday, 07 March, 2021. |
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PUB LIST | PUBLIC HOUSES | Paul Skelton & Rory Kehoe | |||||
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Abbot's Barton Hotel |
Open 2018+ |
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36 New Dover Road Canterbury
Originally known as Westfield house and situated in 3 acres of ground, the "Abbot's Barton Hotel" was a private residence until WW1 and then made available by Francis Bennett-Goldney's family to the Voluntary Aid Detachment as a hospital for wounded troops. Major Francis Bennett-Goldney MP died on active service in France on 27th July 1918 as the result of a motor accident and the family sold up in the 1930s. (Click here) Abbot's Barton House became the AB Hotel just after WW2 when, in 1949, the licence from the "Royal Fountain Hotel" (destroyed in the 1942 Baedeker Raids) was transferred by the Licensing Committee. The Hotel is now a 3 Star Best Western hotel.
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