South Oxfordshire

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Branch Pub and Brewery News (September 2020)

Thursday 1 October 2020

Pub news:

  • The Red Lion in Blewbury, is being advertised by Brakspear for a new tenancy.
  • The Beetle & Wedge Boathouse has been recently refurbished and reopened on 26th August 2020, with a new owner,
  • Hook Norton’s website says that the Crown in Benson, will reopen in October.
  • The following pubs have recently reopened: The Perch & Pike in South Stoke; The Red Lion in Cholsey; The Table d'Alix at the Plough in Great Haseley.
  • The following pubs have new licensees: The Sun, Whitchurch Hill (Bob Hurst); The George Hotel in Dorchester; The Little Angel, Remenham; The John Barleycorn in Goring (Peter Fisher); The Crown, South Moreton.
  • The following pubs remain closed: The Red Lion, Peppard Common; The Mulberry, 
Didcot; The Home Sweet Home, Roke (the tenancy expired in September).

Brewery news:

  • Bell Street has suspended brewing, with no date, as yet, for restarting.