Celebrating 100 Years of Hotel Cromwell

Happy 100th Anniversary to us!

2025 will see us celebrating 100 years of Hotel Cromwell.

We have some exciting plans to celebrate this milestone, and we look forward to sharing these with you. Keep your eyes peeled and trust us … you won’t want to miss out!

100 years brings with it a lot of history and we wanted to give you a brief rundown of that. The site where we currently sit once belonged to Oliver Cromwell’s secretary of state, Mr John Thurloe – whilst this was supposedly just a clerical position, he was to all intents and purposes, Cromwell’s spy master!

After the site was confiscated from Thurloe in 1660, it was reimagined and has been used as many things, until ultimately becoming ‘Cromwell Hotel’ in 1925.

After a few years, and despite strenuous objections, the Cromwell became the town’s principal residential hotel.

Its reputation continued to grow over the next 3 decades becoming known as one of the best hotels along the Great North Road.

By the 1970’s, the Cromwell was very much at the heart of the community and was the venue where the people of Stevenage went for any and all major events, be it a Wedding, Christening or Funeral.

Looking ahead to now – 2025 also sees us celebrating 10 years of The Distinct Group acquiring and running this beautiful hotel. After a meticulous and complete refurbishment, the hotel has been brought into the modern era whilst keeping its history and sense of community that has kept these doors open for the last 100 years!

We are beyond grateful to be celebrating the history of our hotel and to sharing its future with you all.

We have two massive events coming to the Cromwell this year, so get the following dates in your diary and keep the dates free!

Saturday 5th July
Friday 14th November

Stay tuned for more information on the above dates as we celebrate 100 years of Cromwell in style.

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