King's Arms, Dorchester
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50°42′57″N 2°26′09″W / 50.7157°N 2.4359°W
The King's Arms is a pub, restaurant and hotel in Dorchester, Dorset.[1][2][3] It is grade II* listed.[4][5] The Buildings of England describes its frontage as a "fine expansive...composition", with an attached assembly room.[6] It is a former coaching inn and existed by the eighteenth century.[7][8]
It was bought and refurbished by The Stay Original Company, a Somerset-based operator of West Country hotels, and reopened in 2021.[9]
It features in Thomas Hardy's novel, The Mayor of Casterbridge;[10] Casterbridge was Hardy's fictionalised name for Dorchester.[11][12][13]
