South Oxfordshire

Campaign for Real Ale

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Some of our happy entrants of the Good Beer Guide 2025

We have Clare at the Black Horse, Checkenden; Loddon Tap Yard; Ruth at the Fleur de Lys, East Hagbourne; John at the Spire & Spoke, Watlington; Di at the Crown, South Moreton; Nick and Hazel at the Flowing Spring, Playhatch; Dave at the Cross Keys, Wallingford; Corinne at the Red Lion, Brightwell-cum-Sotwell; Rodney at the George, Sutton Courtenay; and Lottie at the Greyhound, Whitchurch-on-Thames.

Branch, Regional & National News

  • Branch Pub of the Season for Autumn Awarded Thursday 28 November 2024

    Many congratulations to Corinne, husband Mouse (pictured, together with our Chairman Graham Hards), and all of the staff at the Red Lion, Brightwell-cum-Sotwell, who have been awarded our branch Pub of the Season for Autumn.

    Corinne and Mouse, took over the pub in February 2020, just weeks before the first lockdown. From Day 1 both have remained resourceful and entrepreneurial and have created one of the most hospitable and welcoming pubs in the branch area, and a true community asset.

    As well as an ever-changing seasonal food menu, four cask ales in excellent condition are usually available, with Loddon’s Hullaballoo, Amwell Springs’ Stay Jammy and Timothy Taylor’s Landlord always available, plus a guest ale predominately from local breweries such as Amwell Springs Brewery Co., Loose Cannon Brewery and Vale Brewery.

Branch & Regional Events

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Other Local Events

Latest Soxon Ale Magazine

Click or tap the cover to read our latest branch magazine, silver medal winner in the 2024 CAMRA Magazine of the Year awards!

Attention Branch members

If you are a fully paid up member of CAMRA, please do visit the Members' Area, where we endeavour to keep all of our members appraised of the latest news relating to Good Beer Guide nominees, Pub of the Year and Season candidates, and general beer scoring trends. You will also find minutes of our monthly Branch meetings for the last 12 months, as well as for our most recent AGM.

Calling all pub landlords and brewers in the Branch area

If you are throwing a beer-related event at your pub or brewery we would love to hear about it! Please contact us to let us know about your event and we will post it here as well as on our social media.

Pubs as ACVs

We currently only have 3 pubs as Assets of Community Value (ACVs) in the branch. If you would like to find out more about protecting your local with an ACV, take a look at the help on our main website.