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Eat and drink · Dursley
The Old Spot Inn, Dursley
A traditional pub at the foot of Stinchcombe Hill in Dursley, on the Cotswold Way, a CAMRA National Pub of the Year, with cask ales, a garden and lunch every day.
Walker-friendly
A real-ale pub of the old kind, on the Cotswold Way opposite the car park, with low rooms, a garden and lunch every day. It is a lunchtime pub for food: there is no evening menu.
- Good: On the Cotswold Way, opposite the May Lane car park
- Good: CAMRA National Pub of the Year 2007/8
- Good: Many cask ales; low connecting bar rooms
- Good: Lunch every day; garden
- Worth knowing: No evening food
- Worth knowing: Same family for over 30 years: a drinker's pub first
About
The Old Spot stands at the foot of Stinchcombe Hill in Dursley, opposite the May Lane car park, where the Cotswold Way comes through the town. Its building dates from 1776, by the pub's own account.
Inside, low ceilings and a run of connecting bar rooms are hung with breweriana, and there is a fire in winter and a secluded garden with a large heated canopy. CAMRA's entry for the pub lists it as dog friendly. The pub's reason for being is cask ale, always several on, and its awards say so: CAMRA National Pub of the Year in 2007/8 and Gloucestershire Pub of the Year again in 2024. The same family has run it for more than 30 years.
Food is lunch only: from noon to 3pm from Monday to Saturday and to 4pm on Sundays, on a menu that leans on local produce, with a Sunday lunch menu too. The bar is open from noon every day, until 11.30pm from Monday to Thursday, midnight on Friday and Saturday and 11pm on Sunday.
It suits walkers best. Come down off Stinchcombe Hill or Cam Long Down, or start here and walk the Way north. Dursley's own cafés and pubs run along Parsonage Street and Long Street, and parking in the town is free.
Opening hours and season
Closed, opens Mon 9, 12:00
| Mon | Opening | Food served |
|---|---|---|
| Monday | 12:00 to 23:30 | 12:00 to 15:00 |
| Tuesday | 12:00 to 23:30 | 12:00 to 15:00 |
| Wednesday | 12:00 to 23:30 | 12:00 to 15:00 |
| Thursday | 12:00 to 23:30 | 12:00 to 15:00 |
| Friday | 12:00 to 00:00 | 12:00 to 15:00 |
| Saturday | 12:00 to 00:00 | 12:00 to 15:00 |
| Sunday | 12:00 to 23:00 | 12:00 to 16:00 |
Food served: Lunch only
The details
- Food
- Pub classics
- Serving
- Lunch · Sunday lunch
- Features
- Garden or terrace · Open fire · Real ale · Bar
- Awards
- CAMRA National Pub of the Year (2007/8)
- CAMRA Gloucestershire Pub of the Year (2024)
- History
- Building dates from 1776; same family for over 30 years
Photos
From Hill Road 
The bar 
The dining room 
Real ales
Location
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Jubilee Clump, Wotton Hill
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