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Eat and drink · The Barringtons and Windrush
The Fox Inn, Great Barrington
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.
The riverside pub of the Windrush valley: a garden by the water, a log burner in the bar and food all afternoon at weekends. Book ahead for Sunday lunch.
- Good: Riverside restaurant and garden on the Windrush
- Good: Food all day on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays
- Good: Breakfast and children's menus
- Good: Seven bedrooms
- Worth knowing: Book ahead for Sunday lunch
- Worth knowing: Weekday kitchen closes between 2.30pm and 6pm
About
The Fox stands beside the River Windrush at the Barringtons, just over the Gloucestershire border from Burford. It is a Grade II listed Donnington Brewery inn, an eighteenth-century building with later extensions, with a riverside restaurant, a garden, a log burner in the bar and seven bedrooms, refurbished in 2022. The King family, who took it over in early 2022, have run the Angel at Burford since 2011.
The menus are seasonal and lean on Cotswold produce, with pub classics alongside more adventurous dishes, a bar snack menu for something lighter, a children's menu and a Sunday roast. Breakfast is served too.
The pub opens from 8.30am to 11pm every day. From Monday to Thursday lunch runs from noon to 2.30pm and dinner from 6pm to 9pm. On Fridays and Saturdays food is served all day from noon to 9pm, and on Sundays from noon to 7pm. Book online through the website, especially for Sunday lunch.
The seven bedrooms are named after nearby villages, and the pub's own room pages describe each one. Duckleston and Windrush look over the river, and Windrush has a king-size bed with room for two extra single beds on request. Burford and Taynton can be made up as a super king or a twin, Upton sits in the eaves with its own balcony, and Taynton is described as fully accessible for guests who struggle with stairs. Rooms are booked through the pub's own booking page. Expedia lists free parking and check-out by 10.30am; ring for check-in times and whether dogs can stay.
Donnington Brewery describes the Fox as dog friendly, but check with the pub before you bring one in.
Opening hours and season
Closed, opens Mon 9, 08:30
| Mon | Opening | Food served |
|---|---|---|
| Monday | 08:30 to 23:00 | 12:00 to 14:30, 18:00 to 21:00 |
| Tuesday | 08:30 to 23:00 | 12:00 to 14:30, 18:00 to 21:00 |
| Wednesday | 08:30 to 23:00 | 12:00 to 14:30, 18:00 to 21:00 |
| Thursday | 08:30 to 23:00 | 12:00 to 14:30, 18:00 to 21:00 |
| Friday | 08:30 to 23:00 | 12:00 to 21:00 |
| Saturday | 08:30 to 23:00 | 12:00 to 21:00 |
| Sunday | 08:30 to 23:00 | 12:00 to 19:00 |
The details
- Food
- Pub classics · Modern British
- Serving
- Breakfast · Lunch · Dinner · Sunday lunch
- Dietary
- Children's menu
- Booking a table
- Booking recommended
- Rooms
- 7
- Features
- By the water · Garden or terrace · Open fire · Real ale · Restaurant
- History
- Eighteenth-century inn by the River Windrush, Grade II listed
Photos
The fireplace 
The garden by the river 
Sunday roast 
A bedroom
Location
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Nearby walks, places and things to do
- Greenview Cottage 0.6 km away
- The Inn for All Seasons 1.0 km away
- The Lamb Inn, Great Rissington 4.3 km away
- The Lamb Inn 4.6 km away
Sights nearby
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Burford Priory
Sight · Historic building · Burford
Burford Priory is a Jacobean mansion on the site of a medieval hospital in Burford, remodelled by Speaker Lenthall in the seventeenth century, with his chapel of 1661 to 1662 beside it. Grade I; a private house, seen only from Priory Lane.
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Burford Bridge
Sight · Bridge · Burford
Burford Bridge carries the road over the River Windrush at the foot of Burford's High Street: four low arches with pointed cutwaters, medieval in origin and heavily remodelled in 1791. Grade II*, on the way in and out of the town.
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River Windrush
Sight · River · The Oxfordshire Cotswolds
The River Windrush rises on the high wolds of Gloucestershire and runs south-east through Naunton, Bourton-on-the-Water, Burford, Minster Lovell and Witney to join the Thames at Newbridge. Public footpaths follow much of it, and eight of our walks meet it.
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St John the Baptist, Burford
Sight · Church · Burford
St John the Baptist is Burford's great wool church by the Windrush: Norman at its core, with a fan-vaulted porch, the Tanfield and Harman monuments, and the font where a Leveller carved his name before three were shot in 1649. Grade I; open daily, free.