Inn · Kingham
The Kingham Plough
A pub with six rooms and a cottage on the green at Kingham, open daily from 8.30am, with dogs and families welcome.
Car-free · Dog-friendly · Family-friendly
Arrive by train and walk to the green: an easy car-free stay, with the bar open all day and room for children and the dog. Book ahead for weekends and Sunday lunch.
- Good: Open every day from 8.30am, bar menu all day
- Good: Two dog-friendly rooms, with bed and bowl
- Good: Children welcome; highchairs, cots and extra beds
- Good: Little Barn Cottage alongside, with a log burner
- Worth knowing: Book ahead at weekends and for Sunday lunch
- Worth knowing: Two-night minimum in the cottage
About
The Kingham Plough is a country pub and restaurant on the green in Kingham, restored with locally sourced antiques. It opens every day from 8.30am to 11pm, with the bar and an all-day bar menu, a fire inside and a terrace outside, and dogs are welcome in the bar and on the terrace. Kingham station, on the line from London Paddington, is about 2km (a mile and a quarter) from the green by road.
The kitchen cooks seasonal modern British food with Mediterranean touches, alongside pub classics, and caters for vegetarian, vegan and gluten-free diets on request. Booking is recommended at weekends, for Sunday lunch and for groups, and there is space for group and private dining. Families are welcome, with highchairs.
There are six en-suite bedrooms, open all year, with super-king or king-size beds; some can be made up as twins, and two have freestanding baths. Two, Bedrooms 5 and 6 in the annexe, are the only dog rooms, with a bed and bowl and a £10 dog charge, and cots and extra beds are available on request. Wi-Fi is free, and parking for guests can be limited at busy times. Beside the pub, Little Barn Cottage has a lounge and log burner, a dining room, a kitchen and a courtyard garden with a barbecue, for a minimum of two nights; the pub’s booking page says it sleeps four, with two bathrooms. Check-in is from 3pm to 10pm and check-out by 11am, and every room has a two-night minimum at weekends.
The Kingham, Daylesford and the Evenlode walk starts in the village, and St Andrew's Church is a short walk from the green.
Opening hours and season
| Monday | 08:30 to 23:00 |
|---|---|
| Tuesday | 08:30 to 23:00 |
| Wednesday | 08:30 to 23:00 |
| Thursday | 08:30 to 23:00 |
| Friday | 08:30 to 23:00 |
| Saturday | 08:30 to 23:00 |
| Sunday | 08:30 to 23:00 |
The bar is open all day with an all-day bar menu. Breakfast is for residents; non-residents should check and book.
The details
- Food
- Modern British · Pub classics
- Serving
- Breakfast · Sunday lunch
- Dietary
- Vegetarian dishes · Vegan dishes · Gluten-free dishes
- Booking a table
- Booking recommended
- Rooms
- 6
- Check-in
- 3pm to 10pm
- Check-out
- By 11am
- Minimum stay
- Two nights in Little Barn Cottage, and two nights at weekends in every room
- Features
- Open fire · Restaurant · Bar · Private dining · Dogs in rooms
- Without a car
- Kingham station, on the line from London Paddington, is about 2km (a mile and a quarter) from the green by road. Parking is available for guests but can be limited at busy times.
Photos
A bedroom 
From the kitchen 
A bathroom 
From the kitchen
Location
Nearby walks, places and things to do
- The Wild Rabbit 0.3 km away
- Daylesford Farm 2.1 km away
- Daylesford Stays cottages 2.1 km away
- The Sheiling 2.1 km away
Sights nearby
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River Evenlode
Sight · River · Kingham
The Evenlode is the river of the valley below Kingham, rising in the Cotswold limestone and flowing south-east to the Thames; near Kingham it runs beside the Cotswold Line past Bledington and Daylesford and for a stretch marks the Oxfordshire and Gloucestershire boundary.
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St Andrew's Church, Kingham
Sight · Church · Kingham
Kingham's ironstone church of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, with a pinnacled tower, a nave roof dated 1774, an Elizabethan brass in the Easter Sepulchre and the old rectory of 1688 next door. Grade II*.
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St Leonard's Church, Bledington
Sight · Church · Kingham
Bledington's Grade I church by the green, recorded in 1175 and rebuilt in the fifteenth century, with fifteenth-century painted glass, one panel dated 1470, a Norman tub font and a tower built inside the nave. Open daily.
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St Nicholas's Church, Lower Oddington
Sight · Church · Stow-on-the-Wold
A Grade I church in the woods at Lower Oddington, near Stow-on-the-Wold, left almost unaltered when a new church was built in 1852. Its north wall carries a huge fourteenth-century Doom, hidden under whitewash until 1913. Open daily; no electricity.