Eat and drink · Lechlade-on-Thames
Lynwood & Co, Lechlade
The first Lynwood & Co café, opened on Lechlade's Market Square in January 2015: an Australian-style café for breakfast, coffee and lunch, open from 8am every day.
The café that started the Lynwood group, on the square in Lechlade, and the obvious breakfast before a walk on the Thames. It opens at 8am every day and closes at 4pm, or 3pm on Sundays.
- Good: The group's first café, opened in 2015
- Good: On the Market Square, open every day from 8am
- Good: Bread from the group's own bakery; Extract coffee
- Good: Start of our walk to the Round House and St John's Lock
- Worth knowing: Closes at 4pm, and 3pm on Sundays
About
Lynwood & Co began here. Rob and Kats opened their first café on the Market Square in Lechlade in January 2015, bringing over the idea of the Australian country café Rob's parents had opened in 1998, and it has since grown into a group of cafés across the Cotswolds, among them Fairford and Northleach. The Lechlade café opens from 8am to 4pm from Monday to Saturday and from 8am to 3pm on Sundays.
The food is breakfast, brunch and lunch: granola and yoghurt, eggs on sourdough, sandwiches and the group's Reuben melt, with brunch served all day, on a menu that changes with the seasons. The bread is slow-fermented in the group's own bakery at Carterton with organic flour from Shipton Mill, and the coffee comes from Extract Coffee Roasters. The group says it was voted best coffee shop in Cotswold Life's Food and Drink Awards in 2016.
Lechlade is a town for the river, and the café is the place to start. Our walk to St John's Lock leaves from the Market Place: a flat 3 miles (4.8km), about an hour, out to the Round House where the Coln and the old canal meet the Thames and back past Ha'penny Bridge and the lock. For a longer day, the walk to Buscot starts at Ha'penny Bridge and takes in Inglesham church, Buscot Weir and St John's Lock.
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 15:00 |
The details
- Food
- Café food · Bakery
- Serving
- Breakfast · Brunch · Lunch
- Features
- Café
- History
- Opened in January 2015, the first Lynwood & Co café
Photos
Avocado on sourdough 
Breakfast porridge 
A flat white 
Focaccia from the bakery
Location
Places to stay nearby
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The New Inn Hotel
Hotel · Lechlade-on-Thames
A 17th-century coaching inn on the Market Place in Lechlade-on-Thames, with thirty rooms, a restaurant and bar, and weddings.
Wedding venues
Verified Nov 2026
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Bridge House Campsite
Camping · Lechlade-on-Thames
A small family-run touring and camping field on Thames Street, Lechlade, a short walk from the river and the town, with 42 pitches and three bell tents, open from late March until it closes for the winter.
Dog-friendly · Walker-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
- New Wave Brasserie and Bar, Lechlade 0.0 km away
- The New Inn Hotel 0.1 km away
- The Riverside, Lechlade 0.2 km away
- Bridge House Campsite 0.5 km away
Sights nearby
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St Lawrence's Church, Lechlade
Sight · Church · Lechlade-on-Thames
Lechlade's wool church on the Market Place, rebuilt in Taynton stone in the 1470s, with a spire seen across the Thames meadows and a churchyard that moved Shelley to verse in 1815. Grade I; closed for restoration through 2026, with reopening expected by Christmas.
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Halfpenny Bridge, Lechlade
Sight · Bridge · Lechlade-on-Thames
The single tall stone arch that carries Thames Street over the Thames at Lechlade, built under a turnpike Act of 1792, with a little square tollhouse on its corner. Named after the halfpenny walkers paid until 1839. Grade II; free.
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River Thames at Lechlade
Sight · River · Lechlade-on-Thames
The young Thames at Lechlade, where the Coln and the Leach join it and the old Thames and Severn Canal met it at the Round House: long the head of the navigable river, with the Thames Path past Halfpenny Bridge to St John's Lock.
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Father Thames and St John's Lock
Sight · Monument · Lechlade-on-Thames
Raffaelle Monti's reclining river god, modelled in cement for the Crystal Palace in 1854, beside St John's Lock below Lechlade, the first lock on the Thames. He lay at the river's source from 1958 until vandals drove him here in 1974. Grade II.