27 places · every place verified by us
The Oxfordshire Cotswolds eats well on the railway line: Daylesford's farm near Kingham, two inns in Charlbury and Burford's side-street kitchens, with village pubs by the Windrush and the Thames. Most take dogs, and Sunday lunch needs booking.
27 places
Restaurants · Woodstock
An Italian restaurant at 1 High Street, Woodstock, a few minutes from the gates of Blenheim Palace, serving pizza, pasta and daily specials at lunch and dinner every day.
Family-friendly
Verified Oct 2026
Cafes and tearooms · Burford
The glasshouse café at Burford Garden Co. on Shilton Road, Burford, serving breakfast, lunch and homemade cakes seven days a week, with no bookings and no dogs.
Family-friendly
Verified Oct 2026
Farm shops and delis · Kingham
The farm shop, restaurant and café at Daylesford near Kingham, open every day, with the Trough holding a Green Michelin star.
Dog-friendly
Verified Nov 2026
Cafes and tearooms · Burford
Huffkins' café and tea room in Burford, the town where the bakery began in about 1890, in a listed sixteenth-century building on the High Street with a medieval courtyard, a bakery shop next door and dogs welcome.
Dog-friendly
Verified Nov 2026
Cafes and tearooms · Witney
Huffkins' café and bakery on Witney High Street, open every day for brunch, lunch and afternoon tea, with outdoor tables, accessible toilets and dogs welcome.
Dog-friendly
Verified Nov 2026
Restaurants · Witney
An Italian restaurant on Witney High Street, opened in 2023, making Neapolitan-style pizza and fresh pasta, with lunch and children's menus, closed on Tuesdays.
Family-friendly
Verified Oct 2026
Pubs · Burford
An inn on Witney Street, Burford, run by the King family since 2011, with an AA Rosette for its cooking, a walled garden and sun terrace, three bedrooms and food from breakfast onwards.
Verified Nov 2026
Pubs · Woodstock
A pub, wine bar and small-plates restaurant on Park Lane in Woodstock, with two AA Rosettes in 2024 and 2025 and a Sunday roast.
Verified Nov 2026
Pubs · Charlbury
A seventeenth-century coaching inn on Church Street in Charlbury, run by Daylesford Stays, with a modern British pub menu using produce from the Daylesford farm, log fires, an orchard garden of nearly an acre and rooms.
Dog-friendly · Family-friendly
Verified Oct 2026
Pubs · Charlbury
An inn on the corner of Sheep Street in Charlbury, there since the early 1500s by its own account, with a dining room built around open-fire cooking, vegetables from its own market garden, rooms, and breakfast for anyone from 8am.
Dog-friendly · Car-free
Verified Nov 2026
Pubs · Kingham
A Lionhearth Group gastropub on Church Road in Churchill, about 2 miles from Kingham, with an open fire, a garden terrace, two private dining rooms and dogs and children welcome.
Dog-friendly · Family-friendly
Verified Nov 2026
Pubs · Burford
A family-run pub on Burford High Street, known in the town as the Coty, with food all day, live music on Friday and Saturday nights, a hidden garden and dogs welcome.
Dog-friendly · Family-friendly
Verified Nov 2026
Pubs · Witney
A Hook Norton pub on Corn Street, Witney, in a building of the 1600s that has been a pub since 1756, with cask ale, live music, a monthly quiz and weekend lunches.
Verified Oct 2026
Pubs · Swinbrook and Asthall
Jeremy Clarkson's pub on the A40 at Asthall Barrow, near Burford, opened in August 2024, serving only British food and drink, with a food truck, a butcher and the Diddly Squat farm shop.
Dog-friendly
Verified Oct 2026
Pubs · Filkins and Broughton Poggs
A restored eighteenth-century stone coaching inn in Filkins, near Lechlade, with two dining rooms, a country bar serving Brakspear ales, seasonal menus from local suppliers, nine bedrooms and dogs welcome.
Dog-friendly
Verified Nov 2026
Pubs · The Barringtons and Windrush
An eighteenth-century Donnington Brewery inn beside the River Windrush at Great Barrington, near Burford, with a riverside restaurant and garden, a log burner, seasonal food all day at weekends and seven bedrooms.
Verified Oct 2026
Pubs · Shipton, Milton and Ascott-under-Wychwood
A pub and dining room on the High Street in Milton-under-Wychwood with a kitchen led by Matt Dare and a passion for seafood landed daily in Devon and Cornwall, open every day from 11am.
Verified Nov 2026
Pubs · Shipton, Milton and Ascott-under-Wychwood
A historic pub on the High Street in Shipton-under-Wychwood, run by Peter Creed and Tom Noest, with simple pub food, a separate restaurant, a private dining room, a large beer garden and rooms.
Verified Oct 2026
Cafes and tearooms · Charlbury
A coffee shop on Market Street, Charlbury, opened in 2025 by the Missing Bean, the Oxford coffee roaster, with pastries and sandwiches from its own bakery, open every day.
Car-free
Verified Oct 2026
Cafes and tearooms · Woodstock
A coffee shop on Oxford Street, Woodstock, run by the Missing Bean, the Oxford coffee roaster, with pastries and cakes from its own bakery, open from 8am on weekdays.
Verified Oct 2026
Pubs · Kelmscott
Kelmscott's village pub, a listed stone inn dated 1690, a few minutes from Kelmscott Manor and the Thames Path, serving British pub classics, breakfast and Sunday roasts, with a garden and eight bedrooms.
Verified Oct 2026
Pubs · Charlbury
A drinkers' pub on Market Street, Charlbury, which says it dates from 1688, with eight hand pumps of changing real ales, a guest cider, an events room and dogs welcome.
Dog-friendly · Car-free
Verified Nov 2026
Pubs · Burford
A family-run Wadworth pub on Witney Street, Burford, in a Grade II house probably of the seventeenth century or earlier, known for its pies, with a beer garden and rooms.
Dog-friendly
Verified Nov 2026
Pubs · Woodstock
A Grade II inn on the north side of the Market Place in Woodstock, serving pub classics and burgers all day without bookings, with cask ales and four rooms.
Family-friendly
Verified Oct 2026
Daylesford Farm, 2 miles from Kingham station, is the best-known food stop in the Oxfordshire Cotswolds: a farm shop with restaurants, of which the Trough holds a Michelin Green Star. The Old Spot serves lunch from 11am to 4pm and takes walk-ins only, and dogs are welcome across the site except in the Trough.
Charlbury, on the same line, has two inns worth the train. The Bull, on the corner of Sheep Street, cooks over open fire with vegetables from its own market garden, serves breakfast to anyone from 8am without booking and is eight minutes' walk from the station. The Bell, run by Daylesford Stays, puts farm produce on a pub menu, with an orchard garden of nearly an acre that opens in the warmer months.
In Burford, the Angel on Witney Street is the quieter alternative to the High Street inns, with an AA Rosette for its cooking and a walled garden. Thursday is pie night. Huffkins, the bakery founded in Burford in about 1890, still has its café and a medieval courtyard on the High Street, and a second café on Witney's High Street.
West of the town, the Fox Inn at Great Barrington is a Donnington pub with a riverside restaurant and garden on the Windrush, serving all day on Fridays and Saturdays and from noon to 7pm on Sundays. Down towards Lechlade, the Five Alls at Filkins cooks trout from Bibury and pork from Kelmscott, and the Plough at Kelmscott, a stone's throw from Kelmscott Manor, is five minutes' walk across the fields from the Thames Path.
At Milton-under-Wychwood, the Hare leans to the sea, with fish and shellfish landed daily in Devon and Cornwall, and opens every day from 11am. At Shipton-under-Wychwood nearby, the Lamb serves simple pub food every day, Sunday evenings included.
Book Sunday lunch at the Fox and the Five Alls, which fill, and dinner at the Bull. The Angel and the Hare do not publish kitchen times, so ask when you book. Dogs are welcome at the Bull, the Bell, the Five Alls and Huffkins, and at Daylesford outside the Trough. For Blenheim and the Wildlife Park, see things to do in the Oxfordshire Cotswolds.
Town by town: places to eat in Burford and places to eat in Woodstock.
Daylesford for the farm shop and a walk-in lunch at the Old Spot, the Bull and the Bell for a meal off the train at Charlbury, the Angel for Burford's side-street kitchen, the Fox for the Windrush, the Hare for fish, the Five Alls for local produce and Huffkins for where it began.
All places
Farm shops and delis · Kingham
The farm shop, restaurant and café at Daylesford near Kingham, open every day, with the Trough holding a Green Michelin star.
Dog-friendly
Verified Nov 2026
Pubs · Charlbury
An inn on the corner of Sheep Street in Charlbury, there since the early 1500s by its own account, with a dining room built around open-fire cooking, vegetables from its own market garden, rooms, and breakfast for anyone from 8am.
Dog-friendly · Car-free
Verified Nov 2026
Pubs · Charlbury
A seventeenth-century coaching inn on Church Street in Charlbury, run by Daylesford Stays, with a modern British pub menu using produce from the Daylesford farm, log fires, an orchard garden of nearly an acre and rooms.
Dog-friendly · Family-friendly
Verified Oct 2026
Pubs · Burford
An inn on Witney Street, Burford, run by the King family since 2011, with an AA Rosette for its cooking, a walled garden and sun terrace, three bedrooms and food from breakfast onwards.
Verified Nov 2026
Pubs · The Barringtons and Windrush
An eighteenth-century Donnington Brewery inn beside the River Windrush at Great Barrington, near Burford, with a riverside restaurant and garden, a log burner, seasonal food all day at weekends and seven bedrooms.
Verified Oct 2026
Pubs · Shipton, Milton and Ascott-under-Wychwood
A pub and dining room on the High Street in Milton-under-Wychwood with a kitchen led by Matt Dare and a passion for seafood landed daily in Devon and Cornwall, open every day from 11am.
Verified Nov 2026
Pubs · Filkins and Broughton Poggs
A restored eighteenth-century stone coaching inn in Filkins, near Lechlade, with two dining rooms, a country bar serving Brakspear ales, seasonal menus from local suppliers, nine bedrooms and dogs welcome.
Dog-friendly
Verified Nov 2026
Cafes and tearooms · Burford
Huffkins' café and tea room in Burford, the town where the bakery began in about 1890, in a listed sixteenth-century building on the High Street with a medieval courtyard, a bakery shop next door and dogs welcome.
Dog-friendly
Verified Nov 2026
Kingham to Daylesford's farm, Burford along the Windrush, Swinbrook and Fulbrook, and Combe to Blenheim's park.
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Walk · Starts in Kingham · 1 hr, 30 mins · Circular · Dog-friendly
A flat 4.4-mile (7.1km) circular walk of about an hour and a half from Kingham: north-west on bridleways across Daylesford's fields to the Evenlode, back down the river meadows and over the Cotswold Line on the level. Walkers report it wet and often flooded in winter.
Walk · Starts in Burford · 2 hrs, 30 mins · Circular · Dog-friendly
A 6-mile (9.7km) circular walk from Guildenford car park in Burford, about two and a half hours of moderate walking with stiles and some road. It crosses the old bridge to Fulbrook and the fields to Widford's church, and returns along the Windrush meadows, which flood in winter.
Walk · Starts in Burford · 2 hrs · Circular · Dog-friendly
A 4.3-mile (6.9km) easy loop of about two hours from the Swan at Swinbrook: north on a lane and west over fields to Fulbrook, back by a lane, then down a wooded valley to Widford's lone church and along the Windrush to the Mitford graves at St Mary's.
Walk · Starts in Woodstock · 3 hrs · Circular
A 6.7-mile (10.8km) circular walk from Combe, moderate and about three hours: over stiled fields to East End, into Blenheim Park, mostly on its public footpaths, past Fair Rosamund's Well and the lake, north to the park wall and back down the western edge to Combe's green.
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Daylesford Farm, 2 miles from the station, has a farm shop and restaurants, and the Trough holds a Michelin Green Star. The Old Spot serves lunch from 11am to 4pm and takes walk-ins only. Walk there on our Kingham and Daylesford walk. Dogs are welcome across the site except in the Trough, and there is plenty of parking by the farm shop.
The Bull, on the corner of Sheep Street, for cooking over open fire with vegetables from its own market garden. Breakfast is open to anyone from 8am without booking, and dinner needs a table. The Bell, on Church Street, is the relaxed choice, with Daylesford produce, log fires in winter and an orchard garden that opens in the warmer months. Both welcome dogs, and the Bull is eight minutes' walk from the station.
The Fox Inn at Great Barrington, a Donnington pub with a riverside restaurant and garden on the Windrush near Burford. Food runs all day on Fridays and Saturdays and from noon to 7pm on Sundays, and Sunday lunch fills early, so book. It has a log burner in the bar and seven bedrooms if you want to stay.
Huffkins on the High Street, where the bakery began in about 1890, serves afternoon tea every day, and you can book it. Sit in the sun-trap medieval courtyard at the back, or among the beams inside. Dogs are welcome, and the bakery shop next door sells cakes to take away. It closes at 4pm on Sundays.
The Windrush and Evenlode valleys on the Oxfordshire side of the hills: Burford's High Street, Kingham on the railway, Witney's blankets and Woodstock at Blenheim's gates.
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