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The Royal Clarence Hotel was one of the projects of the Borough Corporation’s ‘Improvement Committee’, which required a hotel for the town to help with accommodation when the various courts met in the town. It opened on 1825 and was built on the site of the old Crown and Angel Hotels. The adjoining Street, now called York Buildings, was widened at the same time. It was originally called the Royal, but when William the Duke of Clarence (later William IV) changed his horses here the name was changed to the Royal Clarence. The first landlord was R. Elizabeth Maynard (mentioned arranging banquets, for example here in 1832). The seal of the Borough of Bridgwater above the portico are salvage from the iron bridge of 1797. The Clarence was the site of the town’s ‘Assembly Rooms’.
By the time of the below tariff sheet the hotel had become part of Trust Houses Ltd. This styling was adopted in 1918 for the company and they continued in operation until 1970 when they became Trust House Forte.
The Royal Clarence Hotel closed in 1984.
