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Eat and drink · Bibury
The Catherine Wheel, Bibury
A family-run pub and restaurant in Arlington, the upper part of Bibury, cooking from local suppliers since 2009, with a garden, an open fire and four rooms.
Bibury's village pub, a few minutes' walk up from Arlington Row, cooking Bibury trout and pub dishes that change with what the suppliers have. A fire in winter, a garden in summer; book for Sunday lunch.
- Good: Bibury trout on the menu
- Good: Fire inside and a garden outside
- Good: Food every day, lunch and dinner
- Good: Four en-suite rooms in a separate building
- Worth knowing: Saturday hours are printed two ways on its site
- Worth knowing: No dogs in the rooms
About
The Catherine Wheel is a family-run pub and restaurant in Arlington, the upper part of Bibury, a few minutes' walk from Arlington Row. Its chefs, fronted by the proprietor Jeremy White, make the food by hand from local suppliers, which the pub has used since 2009, and some dishes change daily with what those suppliers have.
The menu runs from a whole roasted Bibury trout with new potatoes and caper butter (£19 on its sample menu) and beer-battered fish and chips to a bavette steak and a chickpea and aubergine tagine, with gluten-free and vegan choices marked, and a Sunday roast. There is a party menu for groups of ten or more, ordered ahead.
Food is served every day: from noon to 3pm and 6pm to 9pm on weekdays, noon to 4pm and 5pm to 9pm on Saturdays, and noon to 5pm on Sundays. You can sit by the fire in winter or in the garden in summer, and tables can be booked online.
Four en-suite double rooms are in a separate building beside the pub, with breakfast for guests; dogs are not allowed in them. Bibury Trout Farm is at the bottom of the village, and the walk from Bibury to Coln St Aldwyns makes an appetite.
Opening hours and season
Food served
| Monday | 12:00 to 15:00, 18:00 to 21:00 |
|---|---|
| Tuesday | 12:00 to 15:00, 18:00 to 21:00 |
| Wednesday | 12:00 to 15:00, 18:00 to 21:00 |
| Thursday | 12:00 to 15:00, 18:00 to 21:00 |
| Friday | 12:00 to 15:00, 18:00 to 21:00 |
| Saturday | 12:00 to 16:00, 17:00 to 21:00 |
| Sunday | 12:00 to 17:00 |
Bar noon to 11pm Monday to Friday and noon to 10.30pm Sunday; Saturday hours are printed inconsistently, so check. Food every day.
The details
- Food
- Pub classics · Modern British
- Serving
- Lunch · Dinner · Sunday lunch
- Dietary
- Vegan dishes · Gluten-free dishes
- Booking a table
- Booking recommended
- Features
- Garden or terrace · Open fire · Restaurant · Bar
- History
- Using local suppliers since 2009
Photos
The inn at dusk Photo: David Howard, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Location
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Cotteswold House
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The Swan Hotel
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Nearby walks, places and things to do
- Bibury Trout Farm 0.1 km away
- Cotteswold House 0.2 km away
- 9 Arlington Row 0.3 km away
- Eleven Bibury 0.4 km away
Sights nearby
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Arlington Row, Bibury
Sight · Historic building · Bibury
Arlington Row is a terrace of stone cottages above the mill stream in Bibury, built as a wool store in the late fourteenth century and turned into weavers' homes in the seventeenth. Grade I and owned by the National Trust, the cottages are lived in and seen from the path.
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River Coln
Sight · River · Cirencester and the Coln Valley
The limestone river of the south Cotswolds, rising near Sevenhampton and running south-east past Chedworth, Bibury and Arlington Row, Coln St Aldwyns, Quenington and Fairford to join the Thames at Inglesham above Lechlade. Five of our walks follow or cross it.
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St Mary's Church, Bibury
Sight · Church · Bibury
St Mary's in Bibury is a Saxon church grown over five centuries, with eleventh-century walling, Saxon stones in the chancel, carved capitals of the Oseney canons, the county's earliest stained glass and a Karl Parsons window of 1927. Grade I and open daily.
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Ablington Manor
Sight · Historic building · Bibury
Ablington Manor is an Elizabethan house in the hamlet of Ablington near Bibury, dated 1590 for John Coxwell, with five carved royal heads over its porch. Listed Grade I and a private home, it is seen from the lane through the hamlet.