The oldest part of the current building dates from just before 1541, the year it enters the record books
as an established coaching inn called "The White Lion Inn". However, there is a record of a building on this site dating back
to the early 1100's when Stratford was first established.
The layout of the current building is completely at odds
with the original layout of the Inn; rooms that are currently at the front were in fact at the back, and the ones at the back
were in the middle. Confused? You will be!
In its heyday, the White Lion Inn was the largest coaching inn in Europe stretching from Windsor Street
all the way to the site of William Shakespeare's birthplace, and from Henley Street to Guild Street; it was absolutely enormous!
The Inn would have seen all kinds of comings and goings; births, deaths and maybe even the odd marriage or two. It has definitely
been a hotbed of secret meetings where plans with stranger than fiction plots would have been hatched and perhaps even executed.
Known to have links to several Secret Societies and even royalty; this is a building with more than a secret or two to tell.
Is this why the Inn has so much paranormal activity? You'll just have to come and visit us to find out....
