The best pubs with rooms in the Cotswolds

The best pubs with rooms in the Cotswolds are village inns where the bar is still a bar: the Kingham Plough and the King's Head at Bledington in the Evenlode valley, the Lion at Winchcombe for walkers, the Falcon at Painswick for dogs, the Hollow Bottom at Guiting Power for racing people and the Red Lion at Lacock for a village that empties at dusk. Below are the inns we have checked, region by region.

How we chose: every pub here has a listing of ours behind it, with its rooms, food times, dog rules and parking checked against the pub's own information in October 2026. Nobody has paid to be included, and nothing is ranked by who pays. This page is about sleeping above the bar; for the pubs themselves, the beer and the walks between them, see the best pubs in the Cotswolds, and for hotels, B&Bs and cottages, where to stay in the Cotswolds.

What a Cotswold pub with rooms is like

A pub with rooms is an inn first: a stone building in the middle of its village, with a fire in the bar, local ale, food cooked on the premises and a handful of bedrooms up a staircase that was built for a smaller century. Breakfast is usually included, often only when you book direct. Expect low beams, a few steps between levels and some noise from the bar until closing on a Friday.

The trade-offs are real. Almost none has a lift, parking is often on the street, and village kitchens keep short hours: many close one or two days a week, and most stop serving by 9pm. The rewards are a landlord who knows the paths, a pint by the fire after a wet walk and published starting rates of about £90 to £190 a room a night in 2026, where the pubs put a price in writing; the prices below are theirs.

The North Cotswolds: Stow, Chipping Campden and the wolds

In the North Cotswolds the inns stand on the market squares. On Stow's Square, the Kings Arms is a former coaching inn with ten rooms, three of them split-level stable rooms, a family room and its own car park, which is rare in Stow-on-the-Wold; dogs go in rooms 2 and 3 only, for a charge, and the menu names Lambourne’s Cotswold beef, pork and lamb. The stile-free circuit by Maugersbury starts at the cross outside.

Also on the Square, the Old Stocks Inn has 16 rooms, a two-Rosette restaurant and dogs in the garden rooms at £15 a night (2026), and the Porch House on Digbeth Street, which calls itself England's oldest inn (we have not been able to check that), serves food every day. The Sheep on Sheep Street is the bigger choice, with 22 rooms.

In Chipping Campden, the Eight Bells on Church Street is the pub people picture: fourteenth century, open fires, real ale, six rooms, dogs in the main bar, breakfast included, no children under six and two nights at weekends. The Lygon Arms on the High Street has ten rooms, family rooms, bike storage, free parking and dogs in the rooms and public areas, which makes it the base for the first day of the Cotswold Way; the Noel Arms has 27 rooms, parking and accessible rooms, and the circuit to Blockley starts at its door. At Weston Subedge, the Seagrave Arms has seven rooms at the foot of Dover's Hill, with dogs downstairs only.

The wolds, Bourton and Moreton

On the wolds, the Hollow Bottom in Guiting Power is a racing pub, bought in 1996 by the trainer Nigel Twiston-Davies and Raymond Mould, its former owners (opens in a new tab), with six rooms that all take dogs (£15 each, up to two, 2026), breakfast included, no minimum stay and the same rates in Cheltenham race weeks as in any other. The circuit to Naunton leaves from the green. In Northleach, the Wheatsheaf is a seventeenth-century coaching inn with 14 rooms, food from breakfast to dinner every day, cots for families and dogs in its Boutique rooms (£25 a dog a night, 2026); the walk out to Hampnett starts in the Market Place. Our weekend of pub walks from Guiting Power starts in the same village.

In Bourton-on-the-Water, the Mousetrap Inn at Lansdowne has eleven rooms, a small car park and dogs in its three ground-floor twins, with check-in closing at 8pm, and puts you on the field path to the Slaughters before the coaches. In Lower Slaughter itself, the Slaughters Country Inn has five ground-floor courtyard rooms, two suited to wheelchair users, and dog rooms booked by phone.

In Moreton-in-Marsh, the White Hart Royal, which says Charles I stayed there during the Civil War, has an accessible room, food from 7.30am to 9pm, dog rooms booked by phone (£15 a room a night, 2026) and no parking of its own, which suits the train; the stile-free walk to Batsford starts at the war memorial up the street.

The Oxfordshire Cotswolds: Kingham, Burford and Woodstock

Round Kingham the pubs with rooms are the best in the Cotswolds, and the railway makes them the easiest to reach. The Kingham Plough is on the green at Kingham, a walk from the station, open every day from 8.30am with a bar menu all day, two dog-friendly rooms with a bed and bowl, cots and highchairs for children, and Little Barn Cottage next door for four; book ahead for weekends and Sunday lunch. The flat circuit to Bledington starts at the station.

That walk reaches the King's Head at Bledington, a sixteenth-century inn on the village green named the Good Pub Guide's National Inn of the Year in 2020, with twelve rooms in the inn and a courtyard, EV charging and usually two nights minimum at weekends; dogs are welcome in the bar but not the bedrooms. The Wild Rabbit, Daylesford's pub in Kingham, holds three AA Rosettes for cooking built on the seasonal produce of Daylesford's farm, with dinner from Wednesday to Sunday and light bites only at lunch on Mondays and Tuesdays.

At Lower Oddington, the Fox, also Daylesford's, welcomes dogs in every part of the pub and in one bedroom, with the Coachman's House, a four-bedroom farmhouse opposite that sleeps eight; the walk from Adlestrop passes through. The Feathered Nest at Nether Westcote has four rooms and a cottage in an old malt house, three AA Rosettes and views over the Evenlode, and closes on Tuesdays and Wednesdays. The Swan at Ascott-under-Wychwood takes dogs in every one of its eleven bedrooms (opens in a new tab), £20 each (2026), with a dog menu and a station in the village.

Round Burford, the Lamb Inn on Sheep Street is fifteenth century, with fires and local ale in the bar, dogs in set rooms for £20 a night (2026) and the Bay Tree's car park next door; the walk by Fulbrook and Widford starts at Guildenford. The Swan at Swinbrook, on the bank of the Windrush in the Mitfords' village, has rooms in its stables and a cottage, and no pets in the rooms; the loop by Fulbrook starts at its door. The Three Horseshoes at Asthall has six rooms and a garden over the Windrush valley.

In Woodstock, the King's Arms, in a building dating from the 1500s, has 15 rooms, breakfast included, dogs for £20 a stay (2026) and a reception staffed until 11pm. The Punchbowl on Oxford Street is the family choice, with seven of its nine rooms sleeping three or more, dogs in every room type (£15 a dog, 2026) and breakfast extra, and the Woodstock Arms has five rooms from £90 a night (2026) above a pub that serves from 9am to 9pm. The town walk passes Blenheim's Woodstock Gate. Out at Minster Lovell, the Old Swan, Minster Mill's historic pub, is listed Grade II and has a sixteenth-century wing, with food from noon to 9pm every day and the hall ruins a short walk away.

Cirencester and the Coln Valley

Round Cirencester the pubs with rooms are out in the villages. The Bathurst Arms at North Cerney, about four miles north by road, stands on the River Churn with a beer garden by the stream, food every day except Sunday evening, and dog-friendly rooms on request. The Village Pub at Barnsley has six bedrooms in the eaves, gravity-fed ales, a full English included and dogs in the pub and garden but not the rooms. In the town, the Fleece on the Market Place has rooms from £125 (2026) and dogs in the bar; the walk through Cirencester Park starts at the parish church.

Down the Coln, the New Inn at Coln St Aldwyns is a sixteenth-century coaching inn reopened in 2020, open every day from noon to 11pm, with a Garden Suite that has its own entrance; the walk up the Coln to Bibury and back leaves from the village. Across the river at Quenington, the Keepers Arms is a family-run free house with independent ales, log fires and four adults-only rooms above the pub where a dog stays for £10 a night (one a room, 2026); its published hours close it on Mondays and Tuesdays (ring to check winter hours), and the river walk to Fairford starts at the door. In Fairford, the Bull, an Arkell's coaching inn on the Market Place, listed Grade II, has 21 rooms, some sleeping two adults and two children, and a private 1.25-mile stretch of the Coln for fishing; dogs are welcome in the bar but not the bedrooms.

The Cotswold Edge: Winchcombe

Winchcombe's two inns are the walkers' inns of the Cotswolds. The Lion Inn, a restored fifteenth-century coaching inn on North Street run by Butcombe, has nine rooms that all take dogs (£20 each, 2026), a fireside corner kept for their owners, a beer garden and food from 8am to 9pm Monday to Saturday. The White Hart Inn on the High Street has 16 rooms from £100 (2026), five of them next door in Wesley House, breakfast included when you book direct, dogs in designated rooms for £10 a stay and a fish and chip takeaway.

Both are a few minutes from the Back Lane car park, where the loop up to Belas Knap starts, and from Vineyard Street, where the short walk to Sudeley begins. Winchcombe is about six miles by road from Cheltenham Racecourse, so both inns fill for the Festival in March.

Stroud and the Five Valleys

In the Five Valleys the inns look out over steep green country, and most take dogs. The Falcon Inn on New Street in Painswick, established in 1828 and under new owners since February 2026 (opens in a new tab), has eleven rooms including a four-poster suite, and dogs can stay in any room and go anywhere in the inn; it opens every day from 8am to 11pm and holds a locals' night with live music on the last Thursday of the month. The Cotswold Way runs past the door, and the climb to Painswick Beacon starts in the town.

Above Stroud, the Bell at Selsley is a sixteenth-century inn with two AA Rosettes, two bedrooms and dogs welcome everywhere, bedrooms included (£20 supplement, 2026); it closes on Sunday evenings and all day on Mondays. In Stroud itself, the Clothiers Arms at the foot of Rodborough Hill, a pub since 1891, has seven rooms, a family suite and a beer garden beside an adventure play area, with free parking listed on Expedia, a short walk from the town centre; the walk up to Rodborough Common starts at the Subscription Rooms.

Round Nailsworth, the Amberley Inn has 13 rooms on the hillside above the Woodchester valley, dog-friendly and family rooms and breakfast with every booking. The Old Lodge sits out on Minchinhampton Common with six rooms, breakfast by the fire included, food from noon to 9pm (7.30pm on Sundays) and the commoners' cattle grazing round it from Marking Day in May; the common walk to Amberley passes it. Hunters Hall at Kingscote, a sixteenth-century coaching inn, has 13 rooms in a converted stable block, a play area and an accessible ground-floor room; the Ozleworth loop starts and ends in its car park.

The South Cotswolds: Castle Combe, Lacock, Malmesbury and Tetbury

In the south the inns are in the villages people drive to for the day, which is the point of staying. The Castle Inn on West Street in Castle Combe has 12 rooms, a menu with two AA Rosettes, Sunday roast from noon to 8pm, a fire in the bar, dogs welcome in all the public areas and a couple of dog rooms for one dog at £20 a stay (2026); only a few rooms take children, parking in the village is tight and guests can use the Manor House car park next door, free when it has room. Walk in on the circuit from Ford up the By Brook.

In Lacock, the Red Lion, a Wadworth pub in a Georgian building on the High Street, has five double rooms, all dog-friendly, with breakfast and free parking included and food from 9am every day; its site lists no twins or family rooms. The loop by Naish Hill and Bowden Park starts in the village, and after the National Trust's car park empties the four streets are yours.

In Malmesbury, the Kings Arms is a refurbished coaching inn on the High Street, two minutes from the abbey, with 15 rooms from £125 room only (2026), tapas from midday to 8pm and ten parking spaces through a narrow arch; the river walk starts at Cross Hayes. In Tetbury, the Royal Oak, a free house restored in 2013 (opens in a new tab), has three ground-floor dog-friendly rooms with no charge for dogs, breakfast included and a step-free Garden Room, with no food on Sunday evenings; the Priory Inn has 14 rooms including a large family room, an EV charging point in its car park and a kitchen that stops at 8pm (3pm on Sundays). The town walk starts a few minutes away. Near Chipping Sodbury, the Bell at Old Sodbury is a pub with four rooms on the edge of the Cotswold Way, listed on Booking.com as welcoming children of all ages but not pets, with no food served on Mondays; the hill fort circuit starts in the village.

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Dogs, children and the small print

Dogs are welcome in the bar of almost every inn on this page and in the bedrooms of about half, usually for £10 to £25 a dog, charged by the night at some inns and by the stay at others (2026), and often only in named rooms that you must book by phone. The inns that take dogs in every room are the Lion at Winchcombe, the Falcon at Painswick, the Hollow Bottom, the Swan at Ascott-under-Wychwood, the Keepers Arms and the Red Lion at Lacock. Several that welcome dogs downstairs, the King's Head at Bledington among them, do not take them upstairs. Our guide to the Cotswolds with a dog has the rules on the paths and the commons.

Children are welcome at most, with family rooms at the Kings Arms in Stow, the Lygon Arms in Campden, the Punchbowl, the Wheatsheaf and the Bull at Fairford; the Eight Bells takes none under six, and the Keepers Arms' rooms are adults only. Two-night minimums at weekends are common, breakfast is often tied to booking direct, and kitchens close early on Sundays and shut altogether on a Monday or Tuesday in many villages. Check the days before you book, and if you want the pub for dinner on arrival, check that too.

Which pub with rooms to choose

For a first stay, choose the Kingham Plough by train or the Kings Arms in Stow by car; for a walking weekend, the Lion at Winchcombe or the Lygon Arms in Campden; with a dog, the Falcon or the Hollow Bottom; for food, the King's Head at Bledington, the Wild Rabbit or the Bell at Selsley; and for a village after dark, the Red Lion at Lacock or the Castle Inn. Pub walks in the Cotswolds lists every walk of ours that starts or ends at a pub.