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Eat and drink · Badminton
The Fox and Hounds, Acton Turville
A former coaching house at Acton Turville, the next village south of Badminton, open every day from 8am with breakfast, lunch and evening food, a courtyard garden, four rooms and dogs welcome.
Dog-friendly
The nearest pub to Badminton, which has none of its own: open from 8am every day, with breakfast, a garden courtyard and dogs welcome. Handy too from junction 18 of the M4, five minutes away.
- Good: Open every day from 8am, breakfast until noon
- Good: Dog friendly
- Good: Courtyard garden, fireside and ample parking
- Good: Four double en-suite rooms
- Good: Five minutes from junction 18 of the M4
- Worth knowing: Evening food stops at 8.30pm
About
The Fox and Hounds is the pub in Acton Turville, the next village south of Badminton, which has no pub of its own. It was a coaching house and is now a village pub with four double en-suite rooms, a bar, cosy dining rooms and a garden courtyard, five minutes from junction 18 of the M4. The Badminton Estate took on its ownership and management at the beginning of April 2026, when the Duke of Beaufort poured the first pint at its reopening.
It opens every day from 8am to 11pm. Breakfast runs from 8am to noon, lunch from noon to 2.30pm and evening food from 5.30pm to 8.30pm, from seasonal, locally sourced menus: breakfast, a main menu, an autumn menu, sandwiches, Sunday lunch, smaller plates for small appetites and puddings, with local ales and a wine list. Each room has a TV, free wifi and tea and coffee. Book a table online or by phone.
It is a dog-friendly pub, with ample parking. Its events list for the end of 2026 includes a bonfire night on 5 November, bingo on 19 November and a carol service on 11 December. The pub closes for refurbishment on Monday 9 and Tuesday 10 November 2026 and reopens on Wednesday 11 November, though its main bar stays closed for a while after that as the work goes on.
Badminton's gardens open only a few days a year and the horse trials fill the park each spring; the rest of the time the estate village is quiet, and the Cotswolds National Landscape's generally level Walks on Wheels route from the village hall makes a gentle 2.5-mile (4km) loop before lunch here, though the path is closed during the horse trials. Castle Combe is a short drive south.
Opening hours and season
Closed, opens Mon 9, 08:00
| Mon | Opening | Breakfast | Food served |
|---|---|---|---|
| Monday | 08:00 to 23:00 | 08:00 to 12:00 | 12:00 to 14:30, 17:30 to 20:30 |
| Tuesday | 08:00 to 23:00 | 08:00 to 12:00 | 12:00 to 14:30, 17:30 to 20:30 |
| Wednesday | 08:00 to 23:00 | 08:00 to 12:00 | 12:00 to 14:30, 17:30 to 20:30 |
| Thursday | 08:00 to 23:00 | 08:00 to 12:00 | 12:00 to 14:30, 17:30 to 20:30 |
| Friday | 08:00 to 23:00 | 08:00 to 12:00 | 12:00 to 14:30, 17:30 to 20:30 |
| Saturday | 08:00 to 23:00 | 08:00 to 12:00 | 12:00 to 14:30, 17:30 to 20:30 |
| Sunday | 08:00 to 23:00 | 08:00 to 12:00 | 12:00 to 14:30, 17:30 to 20:30 |
Food served: Lunch and evening food
The details
- Food
- Pub classics · Modern British
- Serving
- Breakfast · Lunch · Dinner · Sunday lunch
- Booking a table
- Booking recommended
- Rooms
- 4
- Features
- Garden or terrace · Open fire · Real ale · Bar · Restaurant · Parking · Dogs inside · Wi-Fi
- History
- A former coaching house
Photos
A bedroom 
From the menu 
The pub on the corner Photo: Ray Bird, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons 
The pub in 1988 Photo: Ray Bird, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Location
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Nearby walks, places and things to do
- Parsonage House 1.7 km away
- Fosse Farmhouse 3.5 km away
- The Bell at Old Sodbury 4.4 km away
- The Castle Inn 4.9 km away
Sights nearby
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St Andrew's Church, Castle Combe
Sight · Church · Castle Combe
Castle Combe's Grade I parish church, open every day in daylight: a fifteenth-century tower begun in 1434 with help from Sir John Fastolf's will, a medieval clock with no face, and the crossed-legged effigy of Sir Walter de Dunstanville.
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Market Cross, Castle Combe
Sight · Monument · Castle Combe
Castle Combe's medieval market cross, a stone-tiled roof on four corner posts over a central pedestal, stands where the village street begins, beside St Andrew's church. It is a scheduled monument, free to see at any time.
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By Brook
Sight · River · Castle Combe
The By Brook is the wooded valley stream that runs through Castle Combe and south by Long Dean, Ford and Slaughterford, in north-west Wiltshire. It once had some twenty watermill sites, for corn, cloth and paper, and public footpaths follow much of it.
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Castle Combe bridge
Sight · Bridge · Castle Combe
Castle Combe bridge carries the village street over the By Brook at the bottom of the hill: three low skew arches rebuilt for the Scropes in the early nineteenth century, with grooves in its buttresses for the iron screens that kept livestock in. Grade II.