Inn · Coln St Aldwyns
The Keepers Arms
A family-run free house in Quenington with four adults-only bed and breakfast rooms above the pub, independent real ales and dogs welcome.
Dog-friendly
Four rooms above a family-run free house, with dogs welcome and the Fairford river walk from the front door. Note it shuts on Mondays and Tuesdays, and on Wednesdays outside its summer hours.
- Good: Dogs in every room, £10 a night
- Good: Independent real ales and open log fires
- Good: Cooked breakfast at weekends
- Worth knowing: Rooms are adults only
- Worth knowing: Pub closed Mondays and Tuesdays; Wednesdays only in summer
- Worth knowing: Rooms up stairs from a separate entrance; some pub noise
About
The Keepers Arms on Church Road, Quenington, across the River Coln from Coln St Aldwyns, is a family-run free house with open log fires, a sun terrace, and real ales and keg beers from independent breweries. Cirencester is about 11 miles away by road and Bibury about three.
Above the pub are four en suite rooms for two adults each, from a top-floor suite with a sitting room to a small double; children are not taken. Dogs can stay in any room, one per room, for £10 a night, and must not be left alone in the room. Breakfast is included: a continental buffet on weekdays and a cooked breakfast at weekends. The rooms have their own entrance up one flight of stairs (two for the suite), which the pub says may not suit anyone with limited mobility, and you may hear the pub below. The pub does not publish check-in and check-out times; its Booking.com listing gives check-in from 3pm and check-out by 11am.
The kitchen cooks with local, seasonal produce, with mains such as braised brisket, Cornish sole and sirloin steak, a children's menu, and a Sunday menu. The pub is closed on Mondays and Tuesdays, and on Wednesdays outside its summer hours, so plan a stay around those days, and book room-only stays on Monday and Tuesday nights direct with the pub.
The Quenington river walk to Fairford and back starts outside the front door, and the Knights Hospitallers' Gateway is in the same village.
Opening hours and season
Food served
| Monday | Closed |
|---|---|
| Tuesday | Closed |
| Wednesday | 17:00 to 19:30 |
| Thursday | 12:00 to 14:00, 17:00 to 20:00 |
| Friday | 12:00 to 14:00, 17:00 to 20:00 |
| Saturday | 12:00 to 14:00, 17:00 to 20:00 |
| Sunday | 12:00 to 15:00 |
Published as summer hours.
Breakfast
| Monday | 08:30 to 10:00 |
|---|---|
| Tuesday | 08:30 to 10:00 |
| Wednesday | 08:30 to 10:00 |
| Thursday | 08:30 to 10:00 |
| Friday | 08:30 to 10:00 |
| Saturday | 09:00 to 10:00 |
| Sunday | 09:00 to 10:00 |
Continental buffet on weekdays; cooked breakfast at weekends.
Bar (summer): Wed from 4.30pm; Thu and Fri 12 to 3pm and from 4.30pm; Sat and Sun from noon. Closed Mon and Tue. Its main hours list also closes it on Wednesdays, so ring to check outside summer.
The details
- Serving
- Breakfast · Lunch · Dinner · Sunday lunch
- Dietary
- Vegetarian dishes · Gluten-free dishes · Children's menu
- Rooms
- 4
- Features
- Open fire · Real ale · Bar · Garden or terrace · Dogs in rooms · Dogs inside
Photos
By the fire 
The Earl Grey room 
The Pig n Whistle room 
The bar
Location
Nearby walks, places and things to do
- The New Inn 0.9 km away
- Coln Community Stores 1.0 km away
- Lynwood & Co, Fairford 3.1 km away
- The Coffee Post, Fairford 3.2 km away
Sights nearby
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Knights Hospitallers' Gateway, Quenington
Sight · Historic building · Cirencester and the Coln Valley
The fourteenth-century gatehouse of the preceptory the Knights Hospitallers founded at Quenington in about 1193, partly rebuilt in the early sixteenth century, beside St Swithin's church. Grade I; on private land, seen from Church Road.
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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 John the Baptist, Coln St Aldwyns
Sight · Church · Coln St Aldwyns
Coln St Aldwyns' parish church: a late Norman doorway of chevrons, a demon carved over a blocked window, a two-tier chandelier of about 1767, and windows remembering the two John Kebles, father and son, who served here. Grade II*.
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St Swithin's Church, Quenington
Sight · Church · Cirencester and the Coln Valley
Quenington's Norman parish church in the Coln valley, recorded by 1100, with two richly carved Norman doorways: the Harrowing of Hell over the north door and, over the south, what may be the earliest carving of the Coronation of the Virgin. Grade I.