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Inn · Witney
The Fleece, Witney
An inn with ten rooms on Church Green, Witney, run by Peach Pubs, with breakfast from 7.30am and food all day.
On Church Green, by St Mary's church, with a car park through the arch and food from breakfast to 9pm. The family room is the one to ask for with a dog or a wheelchair.
- Good: Car park for about 20 cars through the arch
- Good: Breakfast, lunch and dinner every day
- Good: Family room sleeps four, on the ground floor with a walk-in shower
- Worth knowing: Only the family room takes dogs
- Worth knowing: Tell them about dietary needs in advance
About
The Fleece is an inn with ten rooms at 11 Church Green, Witney, run by Peach Pubs. It looks down the green to St Mary's Church at one end, with the Butter Cross and the Market Square at the other.
There are cosy doubles, kings that can be made up as twins, a twin room listed as sleeping four and a family double with a super-king bed and a sofa bed for two children. That family room is on the ground floor with a walk-in shower, and it is the only room that takes dogs. Check-in is from 3pm.
Downstairs is a pub with a seasonal menu of traditional dishes made from local produce where it can be, served from breakfast at 7.30am (8am at weekends) through to 9pm, or 8pm on Sundays. The kitchen asks to know about dietary needs in advance. Parties of nine or more book as a party, and there is a private dining room seating up to 22.
The car park through the arch takes about twenty cars. The inn suits a night or two in the town, with the shops a few minutes' walk away and the Witney Lake and Cogges walk close by.
Opening hours and season
Closed, opens Mon 9, 07:30
| Mon | Opening | Breakfast | Food served |
|---|---|---|---|
| Monday | 07:30 to 22:00 | 07:30 to 11:30 | 12:00 to 21:00 |
| Tuesday | 07:30 to 22:00 | 07:30 to 11:30 | 12:00 to 21:00 |
| Wednesday | 07:30 to 22:00 | 07:30 to 11:30 | 12:00 to 21:00 |
| Thursday | 07:30 to 22:00 | 07:30 to 11:30 | 12:00 to 21:00 |
| Friday | 07:30 to 23:00 | 07:30 to 11:30 | 12:00 to 21:00 |
| Saturday | 08:00 to 23:00 | 08:00 to 11:15 | 12:00 to 21:00 |
| Sunday | 08:00 to 21:00 | 08:00 to 11:15 | 12:00 to 20:00 |
The details
- Food
- Pub classics
- Serving
- Breakfast · Lunch · Dinner
- Rooms
- 10
- Check-in
- From 3pm
- Features
- Restaurant · Bar · Parking · Family rooms · Dogs in rooms
- Parking
- A car park through the pub's arch holds about 20 cars; when it is full, park on the street around Church Green.
Photos
The dining room 
The front terrace Photo: Peter Broster, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons 
A bedroom 
An attic bedroom
Location
Nearby walks, places and things to do
- The Blue Boar 0.2 km away
- The Eagle Tavern 0.2 km away
- The Three Horseshoes 0.3 km away
- Huffkins, Witney 0.5 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.