ARKELL'S has moved into its 103rd pub, just a stone's throw from Blenheim Palace.
The Swindon brewery has paid £700,000 for the Grade II listed Punch Bowl in Wood-stock, Oxfordshire, which dates from the 16th century and before the palace was built.
Managing director James Arkell said: "It's an absolutely fantastic pub with a rich history."
The Punch Bowl, which is Arkell's first pub in Woodstock, is mentioned in 1587 as a grammar school, and became the New Angel Inn in 1760.
The building has also been a bank and a girls' boarding school, before returning to being a pub in the past 150 years.
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