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Eat and drink · Burford
The Royal Oak
A family-run Wadworth pub on Witney Street, Burford, in a Grade II house probably of the seventeenth century or earlier, known for its pies, with a beer garden and rooms.
Dog-friendly
A family-run local off the High Street, quieter than the main-street inns, for a pie and a pint by the fire. Dogs are welcome.
- Good: Award-winning pies, and a gluten-free menu
- Good: Log fire, beams and a sun-trap beer garden
- Good: Dogs welcome in the pub
- Good: Rooms upstairs
- Worth knowing: Closes at 7pm on Sundays
- Worth knowing: Bedrooms are pet free
About
The Royal Oak is on Witney Street in Burford, which runs east off the High Street. Historic England lists it Grade II: a house probably of the seventeenth century or earlier, now an inn, its front windows renewed in the early nineteenth century. It is a Wadworth Brewery pub, a family-run business whose website is signed by John, Jeanette, Harry and Chelsea.
The pub is best known for its pies, which come from the Cotswold Pie Company, have won awards, and can be bought to take home or posted anywhere in the country. Around them is a menu of pub dishes and a Sunday lunch, and a separate gluten-free menu for weekdays and Sundays. Inside are oak beams and a log fire, and outside is a beer garden that catches the sun in summer. The pub and Wadworth both describe it as dog friendly, and its website shows two en-suite double rooms upstairs, though the rooms themselves take no pets.
The pub opens from noon to 10pm from Monday to Saturday and from noon to 7pm on Sunday. Food is served at lunch and from 6pm to 8.30pm on weekdays and Saturdays, and from noon to 5pm on Sundays. It is a short walk from the Angel, a few doors along, and from the Tolsey Museum on the High Street.
Opening hours and season
Closed, opens Mon 9, 12:00
| Mon | Opening | Food served |
|---|---|---|
| Monday | 12:00 to 22:00 | 12:00 to 14:30, 18:00 to 20:30 |
| Tuesday | 12:00 to 22:00 | 12:00 to 14:30, 18:00 to 20:30 |
| Wednesday | 12:00 to 22:00 | 12:00 to 14:30, 18:00 to 20:30 |
| Thursday | 12:00 to 22:00 | 12:00 to 14:30, 18:00 to 20:30 |
| Friday | 12:00 to 22:00 | 12:00 to 14:30, 18:00 to 20:30 |
| Saturday | 12:00 to 22:00 | 12:00 to 15:00, 18:00 to 20:30 |
| Sunday | 12:00 to 19:00 | 12:00 to 17:00 |
The details
- Food
- Pub classics
- Serving
- Lunch · Dinner · Sunday lunch
- Dietary
- Gluten-free dishes
- Booking a table
- Booking recommended
- Features
- Bar · Real ale · Open fire · Garden or terrace · Dogs inside
- History
- House probably of the seventeenth century or earlier; Grade II; a Wadworth pub
- Parking
- Guildenford car park, free, is a short walk away across the bottom of the town.
Photos
The Royal Oak at dusk 
A lamb pie 
The courtyard garden 
Ales on the bar
Location
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Nearby walks, places and things to do
- The Angel at Burford 0.1 km away
- Cotswold Stay 0.2 km away
- Bull, Burford 0.2 km away
- Ostlers 0.2 km away
Sights nearby
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St John the Baptist, Burford
Sight · Church · Burford
St John the Baptist is Burford's great wool church by the Windrush: Norman at its core, with a fan-vaulted porch, the Tanfield and Harman monuments, and the font where a Leveller carved his name before three were shot in 1649. Grade I; open daily, free.
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Burford Bridge
Sight · Bridge · Burford
Burford Bridge carries the road over the River Windrush at the foot of Burford's High Street: four low arches with pointed cutwaters, medieval in origin and heavily remodelled in 1791. Grade II*, on the way in and out of the town.
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River Windrush
Sight · River · The Oxfordshire Cotswolds
The River Windrush rises on the high wolds of Gloucestershire and runs south-east through Naunton, Bourton-on-the-Water, Burford, Minster Lovell and Witney to join the Thames at Newbridge. Public footpaths follow much of it, and eight of our walks meet it.
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Burford Priory
Sight · Historic building · Burford
Burford Priory is a Jacobean mansion on the site of a medieval hospital in Burford, remodelled by Speaker Lenthall in the seventeenth century, with his chapel of 1661 to 1662 beside it. Grade I; a private house, seen only from Priory Lane.