The Golden Lion Hotel, St Ives, Cambridgeshire

A stay at The Golden Lion Hotel, St Ives, Cambridgeshire places you in the heart of St Ives, within a 5-minute drive of One Leisure St Ives and Hill Rise Park Dog Walking Area. This hotel is 14.1 mi (22.7 km) from University of Cambridge and 2.8 mi (4.5 km) from The Manor at Hemingford Grey.

Enjoy a meal at the restaurant, or stay in and take advantage of the hotel's room service (during limited hours). Quench your thirst with your favorite drink at the bar/lounge. Full breakfasts are served on weekdays from 7:00 AM to 9:30 AM and on weekends from 7:30 AM to 10:00 AM for a fee.

Stay in one of 27 guestrooms featuring flat-screen televisions. Complimentary wireless internet access keeps you connected, and satellite programming is available for your entertainment. Private bathrooms with bathtubs or showers feature complimentary toiletries and hair dryers. Conveniences include phones, as well as desks and electric kettles.

Distances are displayed to the nearest 0.1 mile and kilometer.

City Centre Huntingdon - 4.7 mi
Cambridge Castle - 11.0 mi
Cambridge City FC - 11.1 mi
Cambridge Science Park - 11.3 mi
Cambridge Business Park - 11.4 mi
University of Cambridge - 11.5 mi
Kings Colleage - 11.5 mi
City Centre Cambridge - 11.6 mi
Cambridge Airport (CBG) - 13.1 mi
London Road Stadium - 17.9 mi
City Centre Peterborough - 18.6 mi
City Centre Newmarket - 21.0 mi
City Centre Beford - 21.0 mi
Audley End House - 24.3 mi

Featured amenities include dry cleaning/laundry services, a 24-hour front desk, and luggage storage.

Take in the views from a terrace and make use of amenities such as complimentary wireless internet access and a banquet hall.

The Golden Lion Hotel originally dates from the 19th Century as a traditional Coaching Inn in the heart of the Cambridgeshire market town of St Ives. The hotel is referred to as one a "leading hotel" in St Ives in the 1893 travel book 'The Official Guide to the Great Eastern Railway'. The Inn boasts many period features throughout including: History of the Town The St Ives district has been inhabited since Stone Ages, where the remains of a Roman villa have been found. The first Anglo-Saxon settlers are believed to have arrived in the 5th or 6th century, where they names their settlement Slepe - meaning muddy. The original Anglo-Saxon settlement was at the west end of the modern town we know today. The present parish church of All Saints which is just a short distance from us, was rebuilt in the 15th century, which some say is on the site of an old Anglo-Saxon church. During the 17th & 18th centuries St Ives became an key waterway route. Lighters, or horse-drawn barges to you and I, were used to bring coal from the port of Kings Lynn before returning back with corn. Herbert Norris, a local historian, wrote in 1888: "St Ives was formerly the centre of a great river traffic. I have seen the river so covered with barges, that boys could walk across the river near the Quay on their tops".