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Eat and drink · Avening
The Bell Inn, Avening
The village pub on Avening High Street, a Cotswold inn that also serves Indian food in its restaurant and as a takeaway, open from mid-afternoon.
Avening's only pub, and an unusual one: a village local with a wine list that is also the village's Indian restaurant and takeaway. Ring before a lunchtime visit, as it opened mid-afternoon when we checked.
- Good: Indian restaurant and takeaway in a village pub
- Good: Trading since at least the early nineteenth century
- Good: Fine wines and a village welcome
- Worth knowing: Opened at 3pm on the day we checked: ring before lunch
- Worth knowing: Closed on bank holiday Mondays
About
The Bell Inn is the village pub on the High Street in Avening, and it does two jobs. It is a traditional Cotswold inn, with a bar for a pint or a glass of wine, and it is also an Indian restaurant and takeaway, with its own phone line for bookings and orders.
The pub's own history says records show the Bell trading in the village in the early nineteenth century, and that the inn itself is probably older. Its records also show publicans, bootmakers and butchers living and working in the building over the years.
Its website shows only the current day's hours. On Sunday 25 October 2026 it opened from 3pm to 11.30pm, and it says it closes on bank holiday Mondays. That makes it an evening place on the evidence we have, so ring 01453 836422 before planning lunch. To book a table or order a takeaway, ring the restaurant on 01453 836453. For lunch, Nailsworth and Tetbury are each a few miles away by road.
Opening hours and season
Open 3pm to 11.30pm on the days we checked (a Sunday and a Tuesday in October 2026). Closed bank holiday Mondays. Restaurant and takeaway 01453 836453.
The details
- Food
- Indian
- Serving
- Dinner
- Booking a table
- Booking recommended
- Features
- Restaurant · Bar
- History
- Recorded trading in the early nineteenth century
Location
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Sights nearby
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The Bulwarks, Minchinhampton
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