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Eat and drink · Guiting Power
The Farmers Arms
A Donnington Brewery pub in Guiting Power with a log burner, a large beer garden and a skittle alley, serving food from Tuesday to Sunday.
The village's Donnington pub, with a big beer garden, a log burner and a skittle alley, and an easy finish to a walk from Guiting Power. No food on Mondays unless it is quiz night.
- Good: Donnington ales
- Good: Large beer garden and a log burner
- Good: Skittle alley, also used as a function room
- Good: Vegan and gluten-free dishes marked on the menu
- Worth knowing: No food on Mondays, except quiz nights
- Worth knowing: Closes at 8pm on Sundays
About
The Farmers Arms is the village pub in Guiting Power, a Donnington Brewery pub serving Donnington ales, run since June 2025 by Kelsie Duffy and Luke McDonagh and their team. It has a log burner, a large beer garden looking over the village allotments, and one of the area's original skittle alleys, which doubles as a function room for parties and meetings and has its own team. The pub quiz is monthly, and CAMRA lists the pub as dog friendly.
The menu runs from sharers and starters to homemade pies, among them a vegan pie, basket meals, burgers, steak frites and pub classics, with a Sunday roast; vegan and gluten-free dishes are marked. Mains were about £10.50 to £21 in 2026. Food is served from Tuesday to Saturday, 12pm to 2.30pm and 6pm to 8.30pm, and on Sundays from 12pm to 4pm; on Mondays there is food only on quiz nights.
The bar opens at 11.30am every day and stays open until 11pm from Monday to Thursday, midnight on Fridays and Saturdays, and 8pm on Sundays. Book a table by email, or ring 01451 850358. The pub's old web address now leads to an unrelated site, so use the one on this page.
It suits a pint after the Guiting Power and Naunton walk, which starts from the war memorial on the village green and comes back past St Michael's Church, and groups looking for a skittles night.
Opening hours and season
Closed, opens Mon 9, 11:30
| Mon | Opening | Food served |
|---|---|---|
| Monday | 11:30 to 23:00 | Closed |
| Tuesday | 11:30 to 23:00 | 12:00 to 14:30, 18:00 to 20:30 |
| Wednesday | 11:30 to 23:00 | 12:00 to 14:30, 18:00 to 20:30 |
| Thursday | 11:30 to 23:00 | 12:00 to 14:30, 18:00 to 20:30 |
| Friday | 11:30 to 00:00 | 12:00 to 14:30, 18:00 to 20:30 |
| Saturday | 11:30 to 00:00 | 12:00 to 14:30, 18:00 to 20:30 |
| Sunday | 11:30 to 20:00 | 12:00 to 16:00 |
Food served: No food on Mondays, except on quiz nights.
The details
- Food
- Pub classics
- Serving
- Lunch · Dinner · Sunday lunch
- Dietary
- Vegan dishes · Gluten-free dishes
- Features
- Garden or terrace · Open fire · Real ale · Bar · Events and meetings
Photos
The Farmers Arms in summer 
The gable end on the lane Photo: Philip Halling, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons 
Down the lane to the inn Photo: Steve Bennett (stevage), CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Location
Places to stay nearby
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Guiting Guest House
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Walker-friendly
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The Hollow Bottom
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Cotswold Farm Park Holidays
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Nearby walks, places and things to do
- Guiting Guest House
- The Cotswold Guy 0.1 km away
- The Hollow Bottom 0.5 km away
- Zonda at the Halfway 1.9 km away
Sights nearby
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Naunton dovecote
Sight · Historic building · Naunton
Naunton's dovecote is a square stone pigeon house of the sixteenth century or earlier, with a gable on each face, a lantern on top and its nesting boxes still inside. Listed Grade II*, it is looked after by a charity, the Naunton Dovecote Trust.
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St Andrew's Church, Naunton
Sight · Church · Naunton
St Andrew's is Naunton's parish church in the Windrush valley: largely rebuilt around 1500 on an older site, with a pinnacled tower carrying two painted sundials, a stone pulpit of about 1500, a Saxon cross and a ring of six bells. Grade II*; open daily.
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St Michael's Church, Guiting Power
Sight · Church · Guiting Power
Guiting Power’s Norman church of about 1180, open daily, with two carved twelfth-century doorways (one capital a head with its tongue out), a fifteenth-century tower, transepts of 1820 and 1844 and Green Men in its roof. Grade II*; accessible toilet in the churchyard.
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Clapper bridge, Lower Harford
Sight · Bridge · Naunton
The clapper bridge at Lower Harford Farm near Naunton is a low bridge of limestone blocks laid flat on stone piers across the Windrush, of the eighteenth century or earlier: a rare survival here of a kind of bridge more often found in upland country. Grade II.