Eat and drink · Northleach
Lynwood & Co, Northleach
An Australian-style café in the Island House on Northleach's Market Place, one of a small Cotswold group, open from 8am every day for breakfast, coffee and lunch.
The breakfast and coffee stop on Northleach's Market Place, open seven days from 8am. It suits walkers setting out on the Hampnett loop and anyone passing on the A40; it closes at 4pm, or 3pm on Sundays.
- Good: On the Market Place, open every day from 8am
- Good: Bread baked in the group's own bakery
- Good: Coffee from Extract Coffee Roasters
- Good: Start of our Hampnett and Saltway walk
- Worth knowing: Closes at 4pm, and 3pm on Sundays
- Worth knowing: No public car park in Northleach; park in the Market Place
About
Lynwood & Co has a café in the Island House, the building in the middle of the Market Place in Northleach. It opens from 8am to 4pm from Monday to Saturday and from 8am to 3pm on Sundays.
The group behind it was started in the Cotswolds by Rob and Kats, who brought the Australian café of Rob's family to Lechlade in January 2015 and now run cafés across the area, Northleach among them. The bread is slow-fermented in their own bakery in Carterton with organic flour from Shipton Mill, the coffee comes from Extract Coffee Roasters and the meat from Cutler & Bayliss. The menu changes with the seasons, from granola and yoghurt to a Reuben melt.
It is a café for breakfast, brunch or lunch, not a long meal. Northleach has no public car park, so park on the street in the Market Place. Our Hampnett and Saltway walk starts at the door: 4.5 miles (7.2km), stile-free and about two hours, past the Old Prison to Hampnett's painted Norman church. The wool church of St Peter and St Paul is a few minutes' walk away.
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
- Lynwood & Co opened its first Cotswold café in 2015
Location
Places to stay nearby
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Wheatsheaf Inn
Inn · Northleach
A seventeenth-century coaching inn on West End, Northleach, with 14 bedrooms, a garden and food all day, friendly to families and dogs.
Dog-friendly · Family-friendly · Walker-friendly
Verified Nov 2026
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Far Peak Camping
Camping · Northleach
A seasonal campsite with tent and hook-up pitches, tipis, bell tents, shepherd huts and glamping domes beside the Far Peak climbing centre, about a mile from Northleach.
Dog-friendly · Family-friendly
Verified Oct 2026
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The Inn at Fossebridge
Pubs · Chedworth
An inn, a hostelry since the early seventeenth century by its own account, where the Fosse Way crosses the River Coln, between Cirencester and Northleach, with 4 acres of riverside gardens, log fires and seven rooms.
Dog-friendly · Walker-friendly
Verified Nov 2026
Nearby walks, places and things to do
- Wheatsheaf Inn 0.1 km away
- The Old Prison Café, Northleach 0.5 km away
- Far Peak Climbing, near Northleach 2.2 km away
- Far Peak Camping 2.2 km away
Sights nearby
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St Peter and St Paul, Northleach
Sight · Church · Northleach
St Peter and St Paul is Northleach's wool church, rebuilt in the fifteenth century with money from the town's woolmen: a tall tower, a vaulted two-storey porch and one of England's finest collections of brasses to wool merchants. Grade I; open daily.
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The Old Prison, Northleach
Sight · Historic building · Northleach
The Old Prison at Northleach is the house of correction William Blackburn designed in 1791 for Sir George Onesiphorus Paul's reform of Gloucestershire's prisons. A cell block and the Victorian courtroom survive, free to see, with a café. Grade II*.
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St George's Church, Hampnett
Sight · Church · Northleach
St George's is the small Norman church of Hampnett, a hamlet a mile from Northleach, built about 1125. Its chancel was painted around 1868 to 1871 under William Wiggin, later its rector, with stencilled flowers and stars, and survived a villagers' fund to remove it. Grade I.