Inn · Nailsworth
The Old Lodge
An inn with six rooms on Minchinhampton Common, about two miles by road from Nailsworth, breakfast included and food all day.
Walker-friendly
Six rooms on the common, with cattle grazing round you in summer, and food from breakfast to evening every day.
- Good: Breakfast included, served by the fire
- Good: Food every day, from breakfast to evening
- Good: Parking for about 100 cars
- Good: Vegan and gluten-free dishes marked on the menu
- Worth knowing: Mains run from £18.50 to £34
About
The Old Lodge is a pub and restaurant with six rooms on Minchinhampton Common, about two miles by road from Nailsworth. It began as a lodge built by the lords of the manor in the middle of the common, was an inn by the early 1700s and became the golf clubhouse in about 1895, and is now run by Food Club, which also has the Old Fleece at Rooksmoor. Cattle graze the common in summer, and it is popular with dog walkers. On Marking Day in mid May (16 May in 2026), the commoners gather with their cattle beside the Old Lodge to have them marked before they are let out onto the common.
The six double rooms each have their own bathroom, and breakfast is included, served by the fire from 8am to 9.45am. They are booked online through eviivo. Trip.com lists check-in from 2pm and check-out by 10.30am, and says pets are allowed for an extra charge. The inn's booking page says the rooms are all on the first floor, up stairs only, and that the pub has disabled access and a separate disabled toilet.
The kitchen serves from midday into the evening every day, until 9pm Monday to Saturday and 7.30pm on Sundays. The menu mixes pub dishes such as steaks and burgers with dishes from further afield, and marks vegetarian, vegan and gluten-free choices; there is a children's menu and a Sunday roast. Sandwiches are served until 5pm, Monday to Saturday. Mains on the sample menu run from £18.50 to £34. The building has rooms for meetings and parties of up to about 80, with a car park for about 100 cars.
Opening hours and season
Closed, opens Mon 9, 08:00
| Mon | Opening | Breakfast | Food served |
|---|---|---|---|
| Monday | 08:00 to 23:00 | 08:00 to 09:45 | 12:00 to 21:00 |
| Tuesday | 08:00 to 23:00 | 08:00 to 09:45 | 12:00 to 21:00 |
| Wednesday | 08:00 to 23:00 | 08:00 to 09:45 | 12:00 to 21:00 |
| Thursday | 08:00 to 23:00 | 08:00 to 09:45 | 12:00 to 21:00 |
| Friday | 08:00 to 23:00 | 08:00 to 09:45 | 12:00 to 21:00 |
| Saturday | 08:00 to 23:00 | 08:00 to 09:45 | 12:00 to 21:00 |
| Sunday | 08:00 to 22:00 | 08:00 to 09:45 | 12:00 to 19:30 |
Food served: The sample menu gives last food at 8.45pm, Monday to Saturday. Sandwiches until 5pm.
The details
- Food
- Pub classics · Modern British
- Serving
- Breakfast · Lunch · Dinner · Sunday lunch
- Dietary
- Vegetarian dishes · Vegan dishes · Gluten-free dishes · Children's menu
- Booking a table
- Booking recommended
- Rooms
- 6
- Features
- Restaurant · Bar · Open fire · Parking · Wi-Fi · Events and meetings
- History
- A former lodge on the common, later the golf clubhouse
- Parking
- Car park for about 100 cars.
Photos
The Old Lodge on the common 
The inn and its garden Photo: Peter Evans, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons 
The walled front garden Photo: Peter Evans, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons 
Armchairs in a guest room
Location
Nearby walks, places and things to do
- The Amberley Inn 0.7 km away
- The Black Horse, Amberley 1.0 km away
- Dunkirk Mill Museum 1.0 km away
- Egypt Mill 1.0 km away
Sights nearby
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Holy Trinity Church, Minchinhampton
Sight · Church · Minchinhampton
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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Market House, Minchinhampton
Sight · Historic building · Minchinhampton
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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Minchinhampton Common
Sight · Common or park · Minchinhampton
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.
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The Bulwarks, Minchinhampton
Sight · Hill fort or barrow · Minchinhampton
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.