Des Blenkinsopp, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Eat and drink · Fairford
The Plough Inn, Fairford
An old stone Arkell's local on London Street, Fairford, just off the Market Place, refurbished in 2024 with two bar areas, a function room and dogs welcome.
Dog-friendly · Family-friendly
A plain, friendly town pub of local stone, opening straight onto London Street, for a pint rather than a meal. It was refurbished in 2024 with two bar areas, and dogs and children are welcome.
- Good: Refurbished in 2024, with two bar areas
- Good: Dogs and children welcome
- Good: Accessible toilet and a car park
- Good: Cask Marque accredited for its beer
- Worth knowing: The brewery lists no food: treat it as a drinking pub
- Worth knowing: No website of its own
About
The Plough Inn is an Arkell's pub on London Street in Fairford, round the corner from the Market Place, opening straight onto the street. The brewery calls it a handsome little building of local stone, once a favourite with the farmers who came in for Fairford market, and it still looks much as it always has from outside.
Inside, it was refurbished in 2024 and now has two main bar areas. There is a function room for hire, a car park, a disabled toilet, and the beer is Cask Marque accredited. Children and dogs are welcome.
This is a pub for a pint. Arkell's lists no food among its facilities, and the pub's own website no longer works, so ring before you rely on a meal here. It opens at noon every day except Tuesday, when it opens at 3pm, and closes at 11pm, or 10pm on Sundays. In the daytime, 7a Coffee Shop is a few doors along London Street, and the Eight Bells on East End serves food. St Mary's Church is a few minutes' walk away.
Opening hours and season
| Monday | 12:00 to 23:00 |
|---|---|
| Tuesday | 15:00 to 23:00 |
| Wednesday | 12:00 to 23:00 |
| Thursday | 12:00 to 23:00 |
| Friday | 12:00 to 23:00 |
| Saturday | 12:00 to 23:00 |
| Sunday | 12:00 to 22:00 |
Opens at noon every day except Tuesday, when it opens at 3pm; closes at 11pm, or 10pm on Sundays.
The details
- Features
- Bar · Real ale · Parking · Events and meetings · Dogs inside
- History
- Old stone pub, refurbished in 2024
Photos
The pub sign Photo: Ray Bird, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Location
Accessibility
- Accessible toilet
Arkell's lists a disabled toilet. The pub opens straight onto the street; ask about steps at the door.
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Nearby walks, places and things to do
- 7a Coffee Shop, Fairford 0.0 km away
- The Bull Hotel 0.1 km away
- The Coffee Post, Fairford 0.1 km away
- Lynwood & Co, Fairford 0.1 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*.