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Eat and drink · Guiting Power
The Plough Inn, Ford
A Donnington Brewery pub on the B4077 at Ford, near Temple Guiting, serving food all afternoon and evening from Wednesday to Saturday and lunch on Sundays. Closed on Mondays and Tuesdays.
A roadside Donnington pub in the high country between Stow and Broadway, with food all through the day from Wednesday to Saturday. It is closed on Mondays and Tuesdays, and the bar is busy, so email if the phone rings out.
- Good: Donnington ales
- Good: Food all afternoon and evening, Wednesday to Saturday
- Good: Sunday food from noon to 4pm
- Worth knowing: Closed Mondays and Tuesdays
- Worth knowing: Phone often busy: the pub suggests email
About
The Plough is a Donnington Brewery pub at Ford, a hamlet on the B4077 in the parish of Temple Guiting, in the high country between Stow-on-the-Wold and Stanway Hill. It is a useful stop between Guiting Power, Snowshill and the Cotswold Farm Park.
Donnington calls it a sixteenth-century inn. Becky Chanin is the host, and the Jackdaws Castle racing stables are right opposite, the brewery says. Its page also records the Plough as pub of the year in the Cotswolds at the Cotswolds Awards 2025, and as Channel 4 Racing's pub of the year in 2013. Historic England lists the building at Grade II and dates the inn to the late seventeenth or early eighteenth century, with an extension dated 1905 on the front gable.
From Wednesday to Saturday the kitchen serves all through the afternoon and evening: noon to 8.30pm on Wednesdays and Thursdays and noon to 9pm on Fridays and Saturdays. On Sundays food runs from noon to 4pm. The bar is open from noon to 10pm from Wednesday to Saturday and from noon to 6pm on Sundays, with Donnington's ales on the pumps. The pub is closed on Mondays and Tuesdays.
The menus are on the pub's website, and its social media pages carry the latest news. The bar is often too busy to answer the phone, the pub says, so if you cannot get through, email to book a table.
Opening hours and season
Closed, opens Wed 11, 12:00
| Mon | Opening | Food served |
|---|---|---|
| Monday | Closed | Closed |
| Tuesday | Closed | Closed |
| Wednesday | 12:00 to 22:00 | 12:00 to 20:30 |
| Thursday | 12:00 to 22:00 | 12:00 to 20:30 |
| Friday | 12:00 to 22:00 | 12:00 to 21:00 |
| Saturday | 12:00 to 22:00 | 12:00 to 21:00 |
| Sunday | 12:00 to 18:00 | 12:00 to 16:00 |
Closed Mondays and Tuesdays. Open noon to 10pm from Wednesday to Saturday and noon to 6pm on Sundays.
The details
- Food
- Pub classics
- Serving
- Lunch · Dinner · Sunday lunch
- Features
- Real ale
Photos
The pub 
Fish pie 
Pie and chips 
A pint of Donnington
Location
Places to stay nearby
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Temple Guiting Manor & Barns
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Family-friendly · Hot tubs · Wedding venues
Verified Nov 2026
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North Farmcote
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Walker-friendly
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Cotswold Farm Park Holidays
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Lodges, cabins, safari tents, glamping pods and camping pitches at Adam Henson's Cotswold Farm Park above Guiting Power, with entry to the farm included.
Dog-friendly · Family-friendly · Hot tubs
Verified Oct 2026
Nearby walks, places and things to do
- Temple Guiting Manor & Barns 1.4 km away
- North Farmcote 2.7 km away
- Zonda at the Halfway 2.9 km away
- Hayles Fruit Farm 3.4 km away
Sights nearby
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Beckbury Camp, Hailes
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An Iron Age hillfort on the Cotswold edge above Hailes, near Winchcombe, its bank still up to 4m high, with the nineteenth-century monument called Cromwell's Seat, where the story goes that Thomas Cromwell watched Hailes Abbey burn. On the Cotswold Way.
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Hailes Church
Sight · Church · Winchcombe
A little twelfth-century church at Hailes, near Winchcombe, older than the abbey across the lane, with fourteenth-century paintings of heraldry and beasts, a giant St Christopher, medieval tiles and screen, and seventeenth-century pews. Grade I.
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Shenberrow Camp
Sight · Hill fort or barrow · Stanton
Shenberrow Camp is a small Iron Age hill fort on the Cotswold Edge above Stanton, a D-shaped enclosure of about 1.9 hectares inside two banks and ditches, nearly 300m up beside Shenberrow Buildings farm. The Cotswold Way runs through it. A scheduled monument.
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St Barnabas's Church, Snowshill
Sight · Church · Snowshill
St Barnabas is Snowshill's village church, rebuilt in 1864 in coursed stone with a three-stage west tower and a clock, and keeping a fifteenth-century font. It stands beside Snowshill Manor, and it and the cottages round it were filmed for Bridget Jones's Diary. Grade II.