Eat and drink · Fairford
Lynwood & Co, Fairford
An Australian-style café at 2 High Street, Fairford, a few minutes from St Mary's and its medieval glass, open from 8am every day for breakfast, coffee and lunch.
A dependable breakfast and coffee stop on Fairford's High Street, close to St Mary's church and the start of the river walk. It closes at 4pm, and at 2pm on Sundays, so it is a morning and lunchtime place.
- Good: On the High Street, open every day from 8am
- Good: Bread from the group's own bakery in Carterton
- Good: Near St Mary's and the river walk
- Worth knowing: Closes at 4pm Monday to Saturday
- Worth knowing: Closes at 2pm on Sundays
About
Lynwood & Co's Fairford café is at 2 High Street, near the Market Place and a few minutes' walk from St Mary's church in Fairford. It opens from 8am to 4pm from Monday to Saturday and from 8am to 2pm on Sundays.
It is one of a group of cafés that Rob and Kats began in Lechlade in 2015, modelled on the country café Rob's parents ran in Australia. The coffee is from Extract Coffee Roasters, the bread is fermented slowly in the group's bakery in Carterton with organic flour from Shipton Mill, and the menu, which changes with the seasons, runs from granola and yoghurt to the Reuben melt. Fairford and Bampton serve a shorter version of the group's menu, without the bacon and sausage breakfasts.
Come for breakfast and then the church: St Mary's has what the parish calls the only complete set of late medieval glass in a parish church in the country, and opens daily. Or start the day here and walk the level river and lakes loop from the High Street, 4 miles in about an hour and a quarter down to the Coln and back by Cleve Wood; it floods in places most winters. The longer walk to Quenington passes Mill Bridge, below the church. Fairford's market fills the Market Place on Wednesdays.
Opening hours and season
| Monday | 08:00 to 16:00 |
|---|---|
| Tuesday | 08:00 to 16:00 |
| Wednesday | 08:00 to 16:00 |
| Thursday | 08:00 to 16:00 |
| Friday | 08:00 to 16:00 |
| Saturday | 08:00 to 16:00 |
| Sunday | 08:00 to 14:00 |
The details
- Food
- Café food · Bakery
- Serving
- Breakfast · Brunch · Lunch
- Features
- Café
- History
- Lynwood & Co opened its first Cotswold café in 2015
Location
Places to stay nearby
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The Bull Hotel
Inn · Fairford
A Grade II listed coaching inn on Fairford's Market Place with 21 bedrooms, an Arkell's house since 1973, and a private stretch of the River Coln for fishing.
Family-friendly · Wedding venues
Verified Nov 2026
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The Keepers Arms
Inn · Coln St Aldwyns
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
Verified Nov 2026
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The Lakes by YOO
Self-catering · Lechlade-on-Thames
An 850-acre lakeside estate at Coln Park, west of Lechlade, with rooms, apartments, cabins and houses sleeping up to 14, a spa with a 17-metre pool, and a lakeside bar and kitchen.
Family-friendly · Hot tubs
Verified Nov 2026
Nearby walks, places and things to do
- The Coffee Post, Fairford 0.1 km away
- The Bull Hotel 0.1 km away
- The Plough Inn, Fairford 0.1 km away
- 7a Coffee Shop, Fairford 0.2 km away
Sights nearby
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St Mary's Church, Fairford
Sight · Church · Fairford
Fairford's wool church, rebuilt in the 1490s by the merchant John Tame, holds 28 windows of glass made about 1500 to 1515, which the parish calls the only complete set of late medieval glass in any parish church in the country. Grade I; open daily, free.
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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.
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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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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*.