Marlborough Lodge was consecrated at the Bear Hotel, Woodstock on 19th June 1872 and was the sixth Lodge to be formed in Oxfordshire.
From this date there was a rapid increase in membership which made the accommodation at the Bear increasingly inadequate. On 6th July 1874, the Lodge started to hold its meetings in the Town Hall, but the facilities here were not wholly satisfactory and so the Lodge moved again in the December to the Kings Arms, Woodstock where it remained for the next sixteen years. Between 1890 – 1922, the Lodge moved several times and met again in the Bear Hotel, the Marlborough Arms, a Wesleyan Chapel in Oxford Road, Woodstock before purchasing its current premises in New Road, Woodstock in May 1922 which it, and other Lodges, still occupies to this day. The lodge celebrated 150 years since its consecration in 2022.
On the 28th of April 2025, we qualified as a Vice Patron of the Masonic Charitable Foundation. This is as a result of our charitable contributions from 2016, which have amounted to just under £16,000. For a small Lodge, this is a fantastic achievement and complements us in achieving a Gold Award in the Provincial Festival, one of only a handful of Lodges to achieve this