there is a pub/bhotel/b called the bwoodthorpe/b round the corner from my house, and it has been closed for 8 months for modernisation etc, it reopened this week so we decided to go see what its like .. we only stayed for 1 glass of coke, ...
August 30 - While staying with CS (”Jack”) Lewis and his wife Joy and brother Warren in Oxford, George Sayer spends this evening with Jack, Tolkien and RE Havard at Studley Priory, Lewis’s favourite country bhotel/b. b.../b
In June, Woodthorpe received planning permission for an 11-storey hotel, new apartments and a retail and office complex at the former Odeon cinema site off Ashburner Street. - Bolton News, Rob Devey.