Eat and drink · Witney
The Three Horseshoes
A Grade II pub and restaurant on Corn Street, Witney, an early sixteenth-century house that became an inn, run by the BII Licensees of the Year 2025.
Family-friendly
Witney's dining pub: a proper Sunday roast, steaks and a children's menu in one of the oldest pub buildings in the town. The kitchen is shut on Mondays.
- Good: BII Licensees of the Year, 2025
- Good: Sunday roast from noon to 4pm
- Good: Children's menu and a garden
- Good: Open for drinks every day from midday
- Worth knowing: No food on Mondays
About
The Three Horseshoes is on Corn Street in Witney, a few minutes' walk from the Market Square. The building is listed Grade II as an early sixteenth-century house remodelled in the late seventeenth century; the pub says that is when it became an inn, with stables and an open yard behind. The pub records George Brown as its first licensee in 1770, and after his death in 1782 his widow kept the licence until 1788, which is why one of the dining rooms carries her name. Clinch and Co., the Witney brewers, bought it in 1909.
Today it is a pub and restaurant, and its licensees, Michael Dove and Tommy Higgs, were named the British Institute of Innkeeping's Licensees of the Year in June 2025. The lunch menu runs from panini melts to full meals. Dinner runs from small plates to mains, a ribeye steak among them, with in-season specials, and Sunday brings the roast. There is a children's menu, a cocktail list and a secluded garden at the back. The pub says its menus change with what local suppliers have, and suggests ringing for the current one.
The bar opens every day from midday. The kitchen serves lunch and dinner from Tuesday to Saturday and lunch on Sunday until 4pm, and it is closed on Mondays. Book online through its website. From the Market Square, the Butter Cross and Church Green lead down to St Mary's church, and the walk by Witney Lake and Cogges starts on the edge of the town.
Opening hours and season
Closed, opens Mon 9, 12:00
| Mon | Opening | Food served |
|---|---|---|
| Monday | 12:00 to 22:00 | Closed |
| Tuesday | 12:00 to 23:00 | 12:00 to 14:30, 18:00 to 20:30 |
| Wednesday | 12:00 to 23:00 | 12:00 to 14:30, 18:00 to 20:30 |
| Thursday | 12:00 to 23:00 | 12:00 to 14:30, 18:00 to 20:30 |
| 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 16:00 |
Kitchen closed on Mondays; the bar opens.
The details
- Food
- Pub classics · Modern British · Grill and steak
- Serving
- Lunch · Dinner · Sunday lunch
- Dietary
- Children's menu
- Booking a table
- Booking recommended
- Features
- Restaurant · Bar · Garden or terrace
- Awards
- BII Licensees of the Year (2025)
- History
- Early sixteenth-century house, remodelled late seventeenth century; Grade II
- Without a car
- Witney has no station; buses run to the town from Oxford, Burford and Carterton. Corn Street is a few minutes on foot from the Market Square.
Photos
Sunday roast 
Fish and chips 
Steak and chips 
Music in the garden
Location
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Nearby walks, places and things to do
- The Eagle Tavern 0.1 km away
- The Blue Boar 0.2 km away
- The Fleece, Witney 0.3 km away
- Huffkins, Witney 0.4 km away
Sights nearby
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Butter Cross, Witney
Sight · Historic building · Witney
The Butter Cross is Witney's open market house in the Market Square, built soon after 1606 on 13 stone pillars, probably round an older cross, with a clock turret and sundial added in 1683 by William Blake of Cogges. Grade II* and scheduled; free to walk under.
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St Mary's Church, Witney
Sight · Church · Witney
St Mary the Virgin is Witney's cross-shaped parish church at the south end of Church Green, rebuilt in the thirteenth century around a central tower and broach spire, with a late Norman porch and a fine fourteenth-century north transept. Grade I; open daily.
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St Mary's Church, Cogges
Sight · Church · Witney
St Mary's at Cogges, across the Windrush from Witney, is a Grade I church of the late twelfth and thirteenth centuries, once shared with a small priory, with an octagonal-topped tower, a chapel frieze of stone musicians and the busts of the Blake family.
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Witney Lake and Country Park
Sight · Nature reserve · Witney
Witney Lake and Country Park is a Local Nature Reserve on the south side of Witney: a former gravel pit and Windrush meadows run by the town council, with a lakeside path of under 2km, wildfowl in winter and terns in spring. Free.