Welcome to the home of South Oxfordshire CAMRA
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
- Our Branch Pub of the Year 2025 is ‘Crowned’
Thursday 20 March 2025
We are delighted to announce that South Oxfordshire CAMRA’s Pub of the Year 2025 is The Crown, South Moreton.
Many congratulations to Di Humphrey and everyone associated with this fantastic community-owned village pub.
As ever, it was a tight competition as the other contenders are all equally great pubs. The runner-up this year is the Spire & Spoke, Watlington.
We’ll be presenting the Award to the Crown in due course. It will now go through to the Oxfordshire County round together with the PotYs for the other branches covering the county, which are the Kings Arms, Wantage (White Horse); the Grapes in Oxford (Oxford); and the Red Lion, Horley (North Oxfordshire).
Branch & Regional Events
Note that only the first venue for socials is shown. Click through to the event’s page to find the full itinerary.
- Lunchtime social Friday 4 April 2025 12:00 Fleur de Lys, East Hagbourne
- Branch Meeting Wednesday 16 April 2025 20:00 Spire & Spoke, Watlington
- Salisbury pub tour Saturday 26 April 2025 12:00 Salisbury
- Lunchtime social Friday 2 May 2025 12:00 Loddon Tap Yard, Dunsden
- Branch Meeting Wednesday 14 May 2025 20:00 Bear of North Moreton, North Moreton
- Windsor pub tour Saturday 31 May 2025 12:00 Windsor
- Lunchtime social Friday 6 June 2025 12:00 Red Lion, Brightwell-cum-Sotwell
- Branch Meeting Wednesday 11 June 2025 20:00 Plough, Long Wittenham
Other Local Events
- Spring Beer Festival Saturday 12 April 2025 12:00 Plum Pudding, Milton
- Easter beer and cider festival Friday 18 – Sunday 20 April 2025 Cross Keys, Wallingford
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.