Inn · Burford
The Lamb Inn
An inn with rooms in Burford, part of Cotswold Inns and Hotels, taking bookings for rooms and tables and welcoming dogs.
Dog-friendly
A fifteenth-century inn on Sheep Street with fires in the bar and a garden, and dogs welcome in both. It has no car park, but guests can use the Bay Tree's next door.
- Good: Open fires and local ale in the bar
- Good: Dogs welcome in the bar and garden, though not in the main restaurant
- Good: Guests can use the Bay Tree car park next door
- Worth knowing: No car park of its own and no lift
- Worth knowing: Dogs £20 a night in set rooms, £10 for each extra dog
About
The Lamb Inn is on Sheep Street in Burford, a quiet side street off the High Street. It dates from the fifteenth century and began as a weaver's cottage. It belongs to the Cotswold Inns and Hotels group, with the Bay Tree next door.
The bar has armchairs by the fire and local ale, and the restaurant serves seasonal dishes from local produce, with breakfast, lunch, afternoon tea, dinner, Sunday lunch, a bar menu and a children's menu. There is a garden behind.
The rooms run from classic and superior doubles and twins to the Shepherd Room, with a four-poster, and the Allium Room; Rosie, on the ground floor at the back, has its own garden and its own door on Priory Lane, and can be booked with the Allium Room upstairs for a family. Dogs stay in set rooms for £20 a night, with a bed, a bowl and a breakfast sausage, and are welcome in the bar and garden but not in the main restaurant. The inn has no car park and no lift; guests park on the road or in the Bay Tree's car park. The River Windrush and St John the Baptist are a short walk away.
Opening hours and season
Breakfast
| Monday | 08:00 to 10:00 |
|---|---|
| Tuesday | 08:00 to 10:00 |
| Wednesday | 08:00 to 10:00 |
| Thursday | 08:00 to 10:00 |
| Friday | 08:00 to 10:00 |
| Saturday | 08:00 to 10:00 |
| Sunday | 08:00 to 10:00 |
The details
- Food
- Modern British
- Serving
- Breakfast · Lunch · Afternoon tea · Dinner · Sunday lunch
- Dietary
- Children's menu
- Check-in
- From 3pm
- Check-out
- By 11am (noon for £20)
- Features
- Open fire · Real ale · Garden or terrace · Restaurant · Bar · Dogs in rooms · Dogs inside
- History
- 15th century; began as a weaver's cottage
- Parking
- No car park: park on the road, or in the Bay Tree's car park next door, which Lamb guests may use. No EV charging.
- Without a car
- Charlbury is the nearest station, about 9 miles away.
Photos
The garden 
The lounge 
A bedroom 
The bar
Location
Nearby walks, places and things to do
- The Bay Tree 0.1 km away
- Huffkins, Burford 0.2 km away
- The Cotswold Arms 0.2 km away
- Burford Tolsey Museum 0.2 km away
Sights nearby
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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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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.
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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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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.