Where to stay in Witney

In the town

The Fleece is an inn with ten rooms on Church Green, run by Peach Pubs, with a car park for about 20 cars through the arch, and The Blue Boar is a seventeenth-century coaching inn with 20 refurbished bedrooms on the Market Square, by the Butter Cross. Premier Inn Witney on Ducklington Lane has family and accessible rooms.

On the Windrush at Minster Lovell

About three miles west, Minster Mill is a spa hotel on the river, and its sister, the Old Swan, has beamed pub rooms, some with four-posters; both take well-behaved dogs in some rooms. The ruins of Minster Lovell Hall are nearby.

A country inn

The Bird in Hand at Hailey, about two and a half miles north, is a country inn with sixteen rooms and a restaurant.

From your door

Walk from the Butter Cross down Church Green to St Mary's, and on to Cogges Manor Farm. Burford and Woodstock, with Blenheim, are each a short drive away.

Getting here and parking

West Oxfordshire District Council keeps parking free in its car parks. The S7 runs about every half hour in the daytime between Oxford, Woodstock, Hanborough station and Witney, and the Pulhams X52 runs a few times a day between Oxford, Burford and Cheltenham. Hanborough station is about 6 miles away. Witney lies just outside the Cotswolds National Landscape, which makes it a convenient, good-value base for the Oxfordshire side. For other bases, see where to stay in the Cotswolds.

When to come

Cogges opens all day from February half term to the end of October, and only in the mornings in winter; its Christmas Market is on 28 and 29 November 2026, and Christmas at Cogges runs from 5 to 23 December 2026. The Butter Cross, with its clock turret of 1683, makes a good meeting point, and the church at the far end of Church Green is listed Grade I.

In the town, Huffkins on the High Street serves brunch, lunch and afternoon tea every day. For the day, see things to do in the Oxfordshire Cotswolds, and for meals, places to eat in the Oxfordshire Cotswolds.