Inn · Witney
The Blue Boar
A 17th-century coaching inn on Witney's Market Square with twenty rooms, breakfast from 7am and a grill and wood-fired pizza menu.
Family-friendly · Car-free
By the Butter Cross, in the middle of the town, with food from breakfast to 10pm at weekends and buses to Oxford every quarter of an hour. Dogs are welcome in the bar and courtyard but not in the rooms.
- Good: Open from 7am for breakfast, every day
- Good: Mains £15 to £22; wood-fired pizzas from £12.95
- Good: S1 bus to Oxford up to every 15 minutes
- Worth knowing: No parking of its own; town car parks a few minutes' walk
- Worth knowing: Dogs in the bar and courtyard, not the restaurant or rooms
- Worth knowing: Evenings are mainly for adults
About
The Blue Boar is a seventeenth-century coaching inn at 28 Market Square, Witney, near the Butter Cross. It belongs to Acorn Pubs and has twenty rooms, refurbished and each decorated differently, in classic, deluxe and superior sizes. Its booking engine lists accessible double and twin rooms, a deluxe triple and a superior family room for two adults and two children.
It opens at 7am for breakfast (8am at weekends) and the daily menu runs from noon to 9pm, 10pm on Fridays and Saturdays. The kitchen cooks on a grill and in a wood-fired oven: fish and chips, pies, steaks and pizzas, with a Sunday roast, a children's menu and vegetarian and vegan dishes. Mains were £14.95 to £21.95 on the daily menu in October 2026, with steaks dearer. There are real ales, live music and a quiz on the first Thursday of the month, and the Bosworth Suite upstairs seats forty, or takes 75 standing, for parties.
Dogs on a lead are welcome in the bar and the courtyard, where the full menu is served, but not in the restaurant or the bedrooms. Families are seated away from the bar, though evenings are mainly for adults.
There is no car park, but the town car parks are close and generally free. Without a car it is one of the easiest places to stay in the Oxfordshire Cotswolds: the S1 leaves the Market Place for Oxford up to every fifteen minutes, and the Witney Lake and Cogges walk starts in the town.
Opening hours and season
Closed, opens Mon 9, 07:00
| Mon | Opening | Breakfast | Food served |
|---|---|---|---|
| Monday | 07:00 to 23:00 | 07:00 to 11:00 | 12:00 to 21:00 |
| Tuesday | 07:00 to 23:00 | 07:00 to 11:00 | 12:00 to 21:00 |
| Wednesday | 07:00 to 23:00 | 07:00 to 11:00 | 12:00 to 21:00 |
| Thursday | 07:00 to 23:00 | 07:00 to 11:00 | 12:00 to 21:00 |
| Friday | 07:00 to 00:00 | 07:00 to 11:00 | 12:00 to 22:00 |
| Saturday | 08:00 to 00:00 | 08:00 to 11:00 | 12:00 to 22:00 |
| Sunday | 08:00 to 22:30 | 08:00 to 11:00 | 12:00 to 21:00 |
Food served: The daily menu, served in the bar, courtyard and restaurant.
The details
- Food
- Pub classics · Grill and steak · Pizza
- Serving
- Breakfast · Lunch · Dinner · Sunday lunch
- Dietary
- Vegetarian dishes · Vegan dishes · Children's menu
- Rooms
- 20
- Features
- Bar · Restaurant · Real ale · Live music · Dogs inside · Events and meetings
- History
- 17th-century coaching inn
- Parking
- No parking of its own. Marriotts Walk and Woolgate car parks are 2 to 3 minutes' walk, Woodford Way (long stay) 3 to 4; Leys Playing Field suits stays of several nights.
- Without a car
- Stagecoach S1 to Oxford up to every 15 minutes (about 50 minutes) and the Oxford Bus Company X15 to Oxford station, from the Market Square stops. Hanborough is the nearest railway station.
Photos
The bar 
A bedroom 
Fish and chips 
The dining room
Location
Nearby walks, places and things to do
- The Eagle Tavern 0.1 km away
- The Three Horseshoes 0.2 km away
- The Fleece, Witney 0.2 km away
- Huffkins, Witney 0.3 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, 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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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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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.