MYSTERY surrounds the closure of a historic town centre hotel.

Closed signs went up on Wednesday at the Marlborough Arms Hotel in Oxford Street, Woodstock.

In 1994 the London-based Sudbury House Hotel and Conference Centre, which ran the Marlborough Arms, went into liquidation and since then the hotel has been run as a private concern.

The front doors of the hotel are locked and the gates to the passageway from Oxford Street to Union Street have also been closed.

No-one at the hotel was prepared to comment other than to confirm the hotel was closed.

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