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Eat and drink · Minchinhampton
The Crown Inn, Minchinhampton
A Young's pub in the old coaching inn on Minchinhampton's High Street, opposite the Market House, with a hidden garden, Sunday roasts and a monthly quiz.
The town's old principal inn on the High Street: food all day, roasts on Sunday, a quiz once a month and a small garden tucked behind. Book at weekends.
- Good: Food every day from noon, to 9pm (8pm on Sundays)
- Good: Sunday roasts, noon to 8pm
- Good: A small garden tucked behind the pub, and dogs welcome
- Good: Quiz on the last Thursday of the month, £2 a head
- Good: Locals' night set menu on the first Wednesday of the month
- Worth knowing: Quiz entry is cash only
About
The Crown Inn is on the High Street in Minchinhampton, across from the Market House. The pub dates its building to 1715. The Victoria County History records the Crown as the town's principal inn, open by 1718, used for public meetings and assemblies in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, and the terminus for the London coaches. Young's runs it now.
The kitchen, led by head chef Steven, cooks pub classics and seasonal specials from British ingredients, and on Sundays serves roasts with double-egg Yorkshire puddings from noon to 8pm. At the bar there are ales, wines, cocktails and low and no-alcohol drinks. Behind the pub is a small garden, which the pub calls its hideaway.
There is a quiz on the last Thursday of the month at 7.30pm, £2 a person in cash, and on the first Wednesday evening of the month a locals' night in the barn, with a set menu at £23 for two courses or £27 for three (when we checked in October 2026). From 17 November 2026 the pub serves Christmas menus; on Christmas Day it opens from noon to 6pm, and on New Year's Eve until midnight. Book a table online or by phone, especially at weekends.
The pub opens from 11am to 11pm, Monday to Saturday, and from 11am to 10.30pm on Sundays, with food from noon to 9pm (8pm on Sundays). Holy Trinity church is across Bell Lane, and Minchinhampton Common begins at the end of it.
Opening hours and season
Closed, opens Mon 9, 11:00
| Mon | Opening | Food served |
|---|---|---|
| Monday | 11:00 to 23:00 | 12:00 to 21:00 |
| Tuesday | 11:00 to 23:00 | 12:00 to 21:00 |
| Wednesday | 11:00 to 23:00 | 12:00 to 21:00 |
| Thursday | 11:00 to 23:00 | 12:00 to 21:00 |
| Friday | 11:00 to 23:00 | 12:00 to 21:00 |
| Saturday | 11:00 to 23:00 | 12:00 to 21:00 |
| Sunday | 11:00 to 22:30 | 12:00 to 20:00 |
Food noon to 9pm, to 8pm on Sundays. Christmas 2026: Christmas Day noon to 6pm, New Year's Eve 11am to midnight, 24 December to 1 January otherwise 11am to 11pm.
The details
- Food
- Pub classics · Modern British
- Serving
- Lunch · Dinner · Sunday lunch
- Booking a table
- Booking recommended
- Features
- Bar · Restaurant · Garden or terrace · Dogs inside
- History
- An inn by 1718
Photos
The dining room under the roof 
The bar 
The dining room 
A pie
Location
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Nearby walks, places and things to do
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Sights nearby
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Market House, Minchinhampton
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Minchinhampton's Market House was built in 1698 by the lord of the manor, Philip Sheppard, for the wool and yarn trade: an open arcade on stone piers with a hall above. Listed Grade II*, it still holds a country market on Wednesday mornings.
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Holy Trinity Church, Minchinhampton
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Holy Trinity is Minchinhampton's Grade I parish church, known for its fourteenth-century tower whose spire was cut short in 1563 and crowned with a stone coronet, a south transept lit by a great rose window, and the grave of the astronomer James Bradley.
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The Bulwarks, Minchinhampton
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The Bulwarks is a Late Iron Age bank and ditch that sweeps across Minchinhampton Common north and north-west of the town: a bank 10m to 12m wide with a stone face, dated by pottery found in the 1937 excavation. It lies on free National Trust common land.
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Minchinhampton Common
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Minchinhampton Common is a wide sweep of limestone grassland above Stroud and Nailsworth, in the care of the National Trust since 1913, where commoners' cattle graze and an Iron Age bank, a long barrow, pillow mounds and wartime trenches lie in the turf. Free to wander.