The Fox at Oddington
Witch marks in the cellar, a 2022 refurbishment and produce straight from the Daylesford farm shop next door.
The Fox was built in the seventeenth century from local stone, likely quarried from the fields around Oddington, and has been recorded as a pub since 1856; by 1862 it already had a parlour, shop, carriage house and skittle alley. Original mullioned windows and an ironstone barrel-vaulted cellar survive today, along with carved witch marks once cut into the stone to ward off evil spirits. After a complete refurbishment in July 2022, the Fox reopened as part of the Daylesford Stays Collection, bringing it under the same ownership as Daylesford Organic and the Wootton estate.
At a Glance
| Location | Lower Oddington, near Stow-on-the-Wold |
| Type | 17th-century village pub, part of Daylesford Stays |
| Known for | Original ironstone cellar and witch marks; 2022 Daylesford refurbishment |
| Nearest towns | Stow-on-the-Wold, Kingham |
A Village Pub with Daylesford Behind It
The Fox remains, deliberately, a proper village pub at heart — a central bar with flagstone floors, hop-garlanded beams, bare wooden tables and fox-head details, several stone-walled rooms and alcoves, and a walled garden for al fresco meals. What has changed is the kitchen behind it: the menu now draws on ingredients from Daylesford Organic’s own farms and the neighbouring Wootton estate, alongside seasonal produce from British growers.
Pub Classics and Wood-Fired Pizza
The food covers a genuinely wide range, from wood-fired pizzas to a Hereford sirloin on the bone, served in generous, unfussy portions built around top-quality ingredients rather than culinary theatre — a changing menu of pub classics and seasonal specials that suits both a quick lunch and a longer evening in front of the fire.
Planning Your Visit
The Fox is in Lower Oddington, a few minutes’ drive from Stow-on-the-Wold and our guides to Kingham, Churchill, Bledington and the Oddingtons and Stow-on-the-Wold, will give you a broader picture of the local area.
Where to Stay Nearby
Oddington’s position close to Stow-on-the-Wold and Kingham puts it within easy reach of several of our north Cotswolds properties. For a fuller sense of what is available nearby, our full portfolio of Cotswold properties can be filtered by location.
However you choose to base yourselves, our concierge team can arrange a table at the Fox as part of a wider day exploring Stow and Kingham.
In Short
The Fox at Oddington pairs a genuinely old building — cellar, witch marks and all — with the produce and polish of Daylesford, making it a village pub with a rather better larder than most.
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