Hotel · Lechlade-on-Thames
The New Inn Hotel
A 17th-century coaching inn on the Market Place in Lechlade-on-Thames, with thirty rooms, a restaurant and bar, and weddings.
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A coaching inn on the Market Place with thirty rooms, a short walk from the Thames. Breakfast starts early on weekdays, which suits anyone setting off on the Thames Path.
- Good: Thirty rooms on the Market Place
- Good: Breakfast from 6.30am Tuesday to Friday
- Good: A couple of rooms look over the Thames
- Worth knowing: Rooms vary: some have steps or sloping ceilings
About
The New Inn is a 17th-century coaching inn on the Market Place in Lechlade-on-Thames, a few steps from St Lawrence's Church and a few minutes from the Thames at Halfpenny Bridge. It is a hotel with a restaurant and bar, open to non-residents, and it hosts weddings and events.
There are thirty en suite bedrooms with Sky TV, wireless internet and tea and coffee, cleaned daily. Being an old building, the rooms vary: some have steps, fireplaces or sloping ceilings, and a couple look over the river. Evening meals are extra, served in the restaurant or the bar, and the bar keeps real ales. Booking.com lists check-in from 2pm to 8pm and check-out by 10.30am, with free parking that is limited and first come, first served (more free parking nearby), electric charging, and pets allowed on request with a possible charge, so ask before bringing a dog.
Breakfast starts at 6.30am from Tuesday to Friday, later at weekends, and lunch and dinner are served every day, with Sunday lunch to 3pm. It suits walkers on the Thames Path and anyone wanting a base in the town: the circular walk to St John's Lock starts in the town.
Opening hours and season
Breakfast
| Monday | 08:00 to 09:00 |
|---|---|
| Tuesday | 06:30 to 08:30 |
| Wednesday | 06:30 to 08:30 |
| Thursday | 06:30 to 08:30 |
| Friday | 06:30 to 08:30 |
| Saturday | 07:45 to 09:45 |
| Sunday | 07:45 to 09:45 |
Food served
| Monday | 12:00 to 14:30, 18:00 to 20:30 |
|---|---|
| Tuesday | 12:00 to 14:30, 18:00 to 20:30 |
| Wednesday | 12:00 to 14:30, 18:00 to 20:30 |
| Thursday | 12:00 to 14:30, 18:00 to 20:30 |
| Friday | 12:00 to 14:30, 18:00 to 20:45 |
| Saturday | 12:00 to 14:30, 17:45 to 20:45 |
| Sunday | 12:00 to 15:00, 18:00 to 20:00 |
Lunch and dinner in the restaurant or bar; Sunday lunch to 3pm.
The details
- Serving
- Breakfast · Lunch · Dinner · Sunday lunch
- Rooms
- 30
- Check-in
- 2pm to 8pm (Booking.com)
- Check-out
- By 10.30am
- Features
- Restaurant · Bar · Real ale · Wi-Fi · Events and meetings
- History
- 17th-century coaching inn
- Parking
- Free parking for guests, limited and first come, first served, as listed on Booking.com, Priceline and Trip.com.
Photos
The dining room 
The bar 
From the kitchen 
The Thames at Lechlade
Location
Nearby walks, places and things to do
- Lynwood & Co, Lechlade 0.1 km away
- New Wave Brasserie and Bar, Lechlade 0.1 km away
- The Riverside, Lechlade 0.2 km away
- Bridge House Campsite 0.4 km away
Sights nearby
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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.
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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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St John the Baptist, Inglesham
Sight · Church · Lechlade-on-Thames
A tiny church by the Thames at Inglesham, south of Lechlade, saved from Victorian restoration by William Morris: box pews, medieval screens, seven layers of wall paintings and a late Saxon Madonna and Child. Grade I; Churches Conservation Trust, open daily.