Eat and drink · Great, Little and Wyck Rissington
The Lamb Inn, Great Rissington
A Brakspear pub with rooms in Great Rissington, a short drive from Bourton-on-the-Water, with a seasonal pub menu, Sunday roasts, private dining and EV charging.
EV charging
The pub of the three Rissingtons, with a seasonal menu that does the classics well and rooms upstairs. No lunch on Tuesdays or Wednesdays, and no dinner on Sundays.
- Good: Seasonal pub menu, changed often
- Good: Sunday lunch from noon to 5.30pm
- Good: EV charging
- Good: Rooms for an overnight stay
- Worth knowing: No lunch on Tuesdays or Wednesdays
- Worth knowing: No food on Sunday evenings
About
The Lamb is the pub in Great Rissington, the southernmost of the Rissingtons, on a slope east of Bourton-on-the-Water about five minutes away by car. It is a Brakspear pub with rooms, a restaurant and a private dining room, in a late seventeenth-century building listed Grade II.
The menu is unpretentious pub food that changes often with the season: devilled kidneys on toast, a beef shin and Brakspear ale pie, a buttermilk chicken burger, with gluten-free versions marked. There is a separate Sunday lunch menu.
The bar opens at noon every day. Lunch runs from noon to 3pm except on Tuesdays and Wednesdays, dinner from 6pm to 9pm every day but Sunday, and Sunday lunch from noon to 5.30pm. Breakfast is served from 7.30am to 10am. The pub says EV charging is available. Brakspear lists the pub as dog friendly. Expedia says dogs can stay in specific rooms only, for £15 a pet a day, and that you request a pet-friendly room through the pub, and lists check-in from 3pm to 10.30pm and check-out by 10am; ring to check where else dogs can go.
Great Rissington is quiet even when Bourton is full. The pub points walkers to the Rissington Round, a circular walk through the Rissington villages, and the walk from Bourton to Wyck Rissington covers the northern end of the slope.
Opening hours and season
Closed, opens Mon 9, 12:00
| Mon | Opening | Food served |
|---|---|---|
| Monday | 12:00 to 23:00 | 12:00 to 15:00, 18:00 to 21:00 |
| Tuesday | 12:00 to 23:00 | 18:00 to 21:00 |
| Wednesday | 12:00 to 23:00 | 18:00 to 21:00 |
| Thursday | 12:00 to 23:00 | 12:00 to 15:00, 18:00 to 21:00 |
| Friday | 12:00 to 00:00 | 12:00 to 15:00, 18:00 to 21:00 |
| Saturday | 12:00 to 00:00 | 12:00 to 15:00, 18:00 to 21:00 |
| Sunday | 12:00 to 22:00 | 12:00 to 17:30 |
The details
- Food
- Pub classics
- Serving
- Lunch · Dinner · Sunday lunch
- Dietary
- Gluten-free dishes
- Check-in
- 3pm to 10.30pm (Expedia)
- Check-out
- By 10am (Expedia)
- Features
- Restaurant · Bar · Real ale · Private dining
Photos
The bar 
By the fire 
The dining room 
A bedroom
Location
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Sights nearby
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St Laurence's Church, Wyck Rissington
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Salmonsbury Camp
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Greystones Farm nature reserve
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Greystones Farm is Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust's 66-hectare farm reserve on the edge of Bourton-on-the-Water: flower-rich meadows that are an SSSI, the Dikler and the Eye, a replica roundhouse and the banks of Salmonsbury Camp. Free and open all year.
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Narrow Bridge, Bourton-on-the-Water
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Narrow Bridge is the oldest dated of the low stone footbridges over the Windrush in Bourton-on-the-Water, built in 1756 with three rusticated arches and low parapets. Listed Grade II with three of its neighbours, it is crossed free at any time.