Buckden - a Huntingdonshire Village

PB1.6.1 The Lion Hotel in the early 1900s. It had fewer rooms than now. The bay on the corner of Church Street was not part of it. Contrary to a onetime claim it was never a posting house. It may have accommodated the Bishop of Lincoln’s staff when he was staying at the palace . Barry Jobling Collection PB1.6.2 The Lion in 2009. In the last hundred years it has had many owners and many managers. It was owned by Trust Houses until the directors decided that they did not want hotels with less than twenty bedrooms and so sold it into private ownership.