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The Star Inn was situated at 52 Cornmarket Street by the entrance to the Clarendon Shopping Centre. It was an important coaching inn in the 18th century and was incorporated into the Clarendon Hotel in 1863. Both were demolished in 1954. The site is marked by a blue plaque inscribed "In 1794 at The Star Inn near this site The Oxfordshire Yeomanry (Queens Own Oxfordshire Hussars) was formed".

A Star Inn has been on this site since 1469 (previously Marshalls Inn). It was renamed The Clarendon Hotel in 1863 and closed in 1939. It was demolished in 1954 to make way for a Woolworths store.

Douglas Rudlin (November 2024)

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