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The South Cotswolds has Punch Pubs & Co's Pub of the Year for 2026 at Sherston, a two-Rosette kitchen in Lacock and old village pubs at Castle Combe and Biddestone, with a vegan pub and an abbey café in Malmesbury. Most welcome dogs, and many close early in the week.
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Pubs · Biddestone
A dog-friendly pub on the green at Biddestone serving pub classics, with a garden at the back, curry night on Thursdays and a quiz on the first Tuesday of the month.
Dog-friendly · Walker-friendly
Verified Oct 2026
The Rattlebone Inn at Sherston was named Punch Pubs & Co Pub of the Year at the Great British Pub Awards 2026: a seventeenth-century pub with an AA Rosette kitchen, food every day, pizza in the barn at weekends and dogs welcome. It is the best reason in the South Cotswolds to eat away from the famous villages.
In Castle Combe, the White Hart, a fourteenth-century Wadworth pub on the street, opens at 9am for pastries and coffee and serves pub classics into the evening. A few miles away, the White Horse sits on the green at Biddestone, generous to dogs and muddy boots, with free parking opposite. It is closed on Mondays and opens only in the evening from Tuesday to Thursday.
Near Badminton, the Fox and Hounds at Acton Turville, a former coaching house, opens every day from 8am for breakfast, lunch and evening food, with a courtyard garden and dogs welcome.
Lacock has two good choices. The George Inn, which traces itself to around 1361, serves food from midday to 8pm every day, with a play area for children and dogs welcome. The Sign of the Angel, a fifteenth-century coaching inn, has the village's best-regarded kitchen, with two AA Rosettes and a garden by the stream. It is cashless, and on Sundays lunch runs on to 7pm in place of dinner.
Near Tetbury, the Cat & Custard Pot at Shipton Moyne welcomes dogs throughout and serves Sunday lunch until 7.30pm. In Tetbury and Chipping Sodbury, Hobbs House, the family bakery, sells bread and coffee from 8am, Monday to Saturday.
In Malmesbury, the Three Cups in Westport has a meat-free kitchen named best vegan pub in Wiltshire by Vegan Food and Living, and the Abbey Café serves coffee and soup inside the abbey church from Monday to Saturday.
Book the Rattlebone's restaurant and Sunday lunch at the White Horse, which takes bookings by phone. The Rattlebone's pizza nights take none. Many places close early in the week: the White Horse on Mondays, the Trouble House outside Tetbury on Mondays and Tuesdays. Dogs are welcome at most pubs on this page. The Sign of the Angel does not say. For the abbeys and gardens, see things to do in the South Cotswolds.
For Tetbury's arboretum, gardens and polo, see things to do in Tetbury.
Town by town: places to eat in Malmesbury and places to eat in Tetbury.
An award-winning pub at Sherston, two kitchens in Lacock, the old pubs of Castle Combe and Biddestone, a dog-friendly pub near Tetbury, a vegan pub in Malmesbury and a farm shop café near Chippenham.
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Pubs · Sherston
A seventeenth-century village pub on Church Street, Sherston, named Pub of the Year at the Great British Pub Awards 2026, with an AA Rosette, food every day and pizza in the barn at weekends.
Dog-friendly
Verified Oct 2026
Restaurants · Lacock
A fifteenth-century coaching inn on Church Street, Lacock, with a two AA Rosette restaurant, log burners, a garden by the stream and five bedrooms; brunch, lunch and dinner.
Verified Nov 2026
Pubs · Lacock
A Wadworth pub on West Street, Lacock, which says it dates to around 1361, serving food from midday to 8pm, with dogs welcome.
Dog-friendly · Family-friendly
Verified Oct 2026
Pubs · Castle Combe
A Grade II listed Wadworth pub on The Street in Castle Combe, open from 9am with pastries, with a courtyard garden, and dog friendly.
Dog-friendly
Verified Nov 2026
Pubs · Biddestone
A dog-friendly pub on the green at Biddestone serving pub classics, with a garden at the back, curry night on Thursdays and a quiz on the first Tuesday of the month.
Dog-friendly · Walker-friendly
Verified Oct 2026
Pubs · Tetbury
A village pub with eight en suite bedrooms at Shipton Moyne, about 2.5 miles from Tetbury, with well-behaved dogs welcome throughout.
Dog-friendly
Verified Nov 2026
Pubs · Malmesbury
A dog-friendly pub on the Triangle in Westport, Malmesbury, with a meat-free kitchen named best vegan pub in Wiltshire by Vegan Food and Living, and music and events.
Dog-friendly · Family-friendly
Verified Nov 2026
Farm shops and delis · Biddestone
A family farm shop and café on Allington Bar Farm outside Chippenham, about 3 miles by road from Biddestone, with its own butchery from the farm, a deli, a bakery and a licensed café.
Family-friendly
Verified Oct 2026
Biddestone's heritage trail from the White Horse, Lacock over Naish Hill, Tetbury by Ashley, and Malmesbury by the River Avon.
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Walk · Starts in Biddestone · 2 hrs, 30 mins · Circular
A 6.5-mile (10.5km) circular walk from Biddestone village hall, two to two and a half hours, moderate with stiles and short steep climbs. It goes round the green, over the fields to Slaughterford's paper mill and the White Hart at Ford, and back down the By Brook.
Walk · Starts in Tetbury · 3 hrs · Circular
A 6.5-mile (10.5km) moderate circular walk of about three hours from Tetbury's Goods Shed, with stiles: along the old railway line, over the fields to Ashley and its Norman church, and back on the Monarch's Way past a brick pillbox, walking towards the town's spire.
Walk · Starts in Malmesbury · 1 hr · Circular · Dog-friendly
A 2.5-mile (3.9km) circular walk from Cross Hayes in Malmesbury, easy and about an hour, mostly level with some stiles: down from the Market Cross past Daniel's Well, along the Avon by the meads and the silk mills, and back round under the abbey.
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The Rattlebone Inn at Sherston, named Punch Pubs & Co Pub of the Year at the Great British Pub Awards 2026. It has an AA Rosette kitchen, food every day, gourmet burgers and a quiz on Mondays, and pizza in the barn on Friday and Saturday evenings. It is dog friendly and opens all day from noon. Book for the restaurant.
The White Hart, a fourteenth-century Wadworth pub on the village street, opens at 9am for pastries and coffee and serves pub classics until the evening, with dogs welcome. On Sundays the kitchen closes at 6pm. For a quieter meal, the White Horse on the green at Biddestone is a few miles away, though it opens only in the evening from Tuesday to Thursday.
The George Inn serves food every day from midday to 8pm, with a play area, a beer garden and dogs welcome. The Sign of the Angel, a fifteenth-century inn with two AA Rosettes, serves brunch, lunch and dinner and cream teas in its garden by the stream in summer. It is cashless, and on Sundays serves lunch until 7pm and no separate dinner. Book the Angel online.
Yes. The Three Cups in Westport, Malmesbury, has a meat-free kitchen serving vegan, vegetarian and gluten-free food, and was named best vegan pub in Wiltshire by Vegan Food and Living. Lunch is served Thursday to Saturday only and there is no food on Mondays, so check before you go. It is dog friendly, with live music on Sundays.
The southern wolds as they fall towards Bath and Wiltshire: Tetbury's Market House, Castle Combe's street by the By Brook, Malmesbury's abbey and Lacock beyond the edge.
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