Eat and drink · Bourton-on-the-Water
The Willow
A Fuller's pub on the High Street in Bourton-on-the-Water, open from 10am, with a garden and outside seating, food all day, and dogs and families welcome.
Dog-friendly · Family-friendly
A dependable pub on the High Street, open from 10am with food from late morning, outside tables and room for dogs and children.
- Good: Dogs welcome
- Good: Garden and outside seating
- Good: Food from 11.30am to 8pm or later
- Good: Baby changing and air conditioning
About
The Willow is a Fuller's pub on the High Street in Bourton-on-the-Water, a few minutes from the River Windrush.
It opens at 10am every day and serves pub classics made with seasonal ingredients from 11.30am (midday on Sundays) until 8pm, or 8.30pm on Fridays and Saturdays. The bar has Fuller's London Pride and ESB on cask with rotating seasonal ales, lagers and craft beers, and Lucky Saint alcohol-free on draught; there are afternoon tea and sandwich menus for a lighter bite, and roasts on Sundays.
The garden has outside seating, and the pub's summer menus for it run to salads and seafood as well as pub classics. Dogs and families are welcome, and there is baby changing, air conditioning and free Wi-Fi.
Book a table through the pub's website or on 01451 798505. The Model Village and Birdland are a short walk away, and the Bourton, Upper Slaughter and Lower Slaughter walk starts in the village.
Opening hours and season
Closed, opens Tue 10, 10:00
| Mon | Opening | Food served |
|---|---|---|
| Monday | 10:00 to 22:00 | 11:30 to 20:00 |
| Tuesday | 10:00 to 22:00 | 11:30 to 20:00 |
| Wednesday | 10:00 to 22:00 | 11:30 to 20:00 |
| Thursday | 10:00 to 22:00 | 11:30 to 20:00 |
| Friday | 10:00 to 22:30 | 11:30 to 20:30 |
| Saturday | 10:00 to 22:30 | 11:30 to 20:30 |
| Sunday | 10:00 to 22:00 | 12:00 to 20:00 |
The details
- Food
- Pub classics
- Serving
- Lunch · Dinner
- Features
- Garden or terrace · Real ale · Dogs inside · Wi-Fi
Photos
The dining room 
By the fire 
The terrace 
Sunday roast
Location
Places to stay nearby
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Old Manse Hotel
Inn · Bourton-on-the-Water
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Dog-friendly
Verified Nov 2026
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The Dial House
Hotel · Bourton-on-the-Water
A hotel with 13 rooms on Bourton-on-the-Water's High Street, five of them designed by Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen, with a restaurant, a garden and parking for guests.
Verified Nov 2026
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Chester House Hotel
Hotel · Bourton-on-the-Water
A family-owned hotel with 22 rooms on Victoria Street, Bourton-on-the-Water, with L'Anatra Italian Kitchen, a walled garden, a car park and rooms for small dogs.
Dog-friendly
Verified Nov 2026
Nearby walks, places and things to do
- Cotswold Motoring Museum 0.1 km away
- Old Manse Hotel 0.1 km away
- The Dial House 0.1 km away
- The Duke of Wellington 0.2 km away
Sights nearby
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Bourton-on-the-Water war memorial
Sight · Monument · Bourton-on-the-Water
Bourton-on-the-Water's war memorial is a tall stone cross of 1920 on the green beside the Windrush, raised by the village for its 27 men who died in the First World War, with 12 names added after the Second. Listed Grade II; open at all times.
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Greystones Farm nature reserve
Sight · Nature reserve · Bourton-on-the-Water
Greystones Farm is Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust's 66-hectare farm reserve on the edge of Bourton-on-the-Water: flower-rich meadows that are an SSSI, the Dikler and the Eye, a replica roundhouse and the banks of Salmonsbury Camp. Free and open all year.
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Narrow Bridge, Bourton-on-the-Water
Sight · Bridge · Bourton-on-the-Water
Narrow Bridge is the oldest dated of the low stone footbridges over the Windrush in Bourton-on-the-Water, built in 1756 with three rusticated arches and low parapets. Listed Grade II with three of its neighbours, it is crossed free at any time.
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Salmonsbury Camp
Sight · Hill fort or barrow · Bourton-on-the-Water
Salmonsbury Camp is an Iron Age fortified enclosure of about 23 hectares just east of Bourton-on-the-Water, its double banks still up to 2m high on three sides, with Roman and Saxon finds and a charter of AD 779. A scheduled monument on Greystones Farm reserve.