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What Happened to The Black Bear… After The Hotel Inspector? (Wareham, UK)

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As of October 2026, The Black Bear Hotel has closed per the business's own notice (May 9, 2026), reviewed by our team on October 19, 2026 and cross-checked against assets.savills.com; not yet independently confirmed through direct contact with the business.

Primary source
camra.org.uk ·
Secondary source
assets.savills.com ·

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What the source shows: CAMRA WhatPub (updated 2026-05-09) lists the Bear Hotel, 14 South Street, Wareham with the former name Black Bear Hotel, and a Savills brochure for The Bear says the current owners acquired the property in 2018, two years after the Maytum family's 2016 episode.

  • Season / episode Season 12, Episode 4
  • Original air date
  • Address 14 South Street, Wareham BH20 4LT
  • Current name The Bear Hotel

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What happened after The Hotel Inspector?

The Hotel Inspector (Channel 5) featured the Black Bear Hotel in Wareham, Dorset, in the episode “The Black Bear Hotel,” which aired 2016-06-22. Wikipedia's list of episodes describes a coaching inn run by first-time hotelier Lynda Maytum and her family. Wikipedia's article on Wareham, read on 2026-10-19, does not mention the inn.

A listing on CAMRA's WhatPub, last updated 9 May 2026, gives the Bear Hotel at 14 South Street, Wareham BH20 4LT, with the former name Black Bear Hotel, and describes an 18th-century coaching inn with eleven en-suite bedrooms. Dorset Council's heritage record describes the Black Bear Hotel on South Street as a mid-18th-century hotel with statues of a bear on its porch. A Savills sales brochure for The Bear, carrying the reference 04.02.25, said the current owners acquired the property in 2018 and did not name them. The Food Standards Agency lists a food hygiene rating of 5 for The Bear Hotel dated 16 July 2026.

Featured on The Hotel Inspector

Season / episode
Season 12, Episode 4
Original air date
Episode title
The Black Bear Hotel
What was featured
A coaching inn run by a first-time hotelier and her family
Role
Featured restaurant
Name on the broadcast
The Black Bear Hotel

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Address
14 South Street, Wareham BH20 4LT
Venue type
hotel
Official website
blackbear.website

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Sources

  • Wikipedia — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_The_Hotel_Inspector_episodes
  • Wikipedia — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wareham,_Dorset
  • camra.org.uk — https://camra.org.uk/pubs/bear-hotel-wareham-149450
  • assets.savills.com — https://assets.savills.com/properties/A123EBFF-DF8C-4C4A-B175-1153C71CE884/Bear_Brochure.pdf

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