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(Pub, External, Key). Published on 02-03-2014
Image: (Pub, External, Key). Published on 02-03-2014
Shiplake - Plowden Arms - looking west - 2019 Oct. (Pub, External). Published on 18-03-2022
Image: Shiplake - Plowden Arms - looking west - 2019 Oct. (Pub, External). Published on 18-03-2022
Shiplake - Plowden Arms - looking north-east - 2019 Oct. (Pub, External). Published on 17-03-2022
Image: Shiplake - Plowden Arms - looking north-east - 2019 Oct. (Pub, External). Published on 17-03-2022
(Pub, External). Published on 08-11-2014
Image: (Pub, External). Published on 08-11-2014
Shiplake - Plowden Arms - sign looking north-east - 2019 Oct. (Pub, Sign). Published on 18-03-2022
Image: Shiplake - Plowden Arms - sign looking north-east - 2019 Oct. (Pub, Sign). Published on 18-03-2022
(Pub, Restaurant). Published on 08-11-2014
Image: (Pub, Restaurant). Published on 08-11-2014
(Restaurant). Published on 07-03-2014
Image: (Restaurant). Published on 07-03-2014
(Bar, Restaurant). Published on 07-03-2014
Image: (Bar, Restaurant). Published on 07-03-2014
(Bar). Published on 07-03-2014
Image: (Bar). Published on 07-03-2014

Plough Shiplake, Shiplake

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Operator: Big Betty Food Company Limited
Reading Road, Shiplake, RG9 4BX (View on Google Map)
(0118) 940 3999
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This is a restaurant, where drinking alcohol, including draught and bottled beer, is only allowed when food is being consumed.

Customers can have a drink in the small bar area without purchasing food.

Reopened as the Plough Shiplake on 9 December 2022 after being closed for three years. The interior has undergone a lavish refurbishment, with the original bar area being removed and a new bar installed at the right-hand end. The remainder is laid out as a lounge and dining area. There is also a new private dining room upstairs. The overall feel is now of a classy, contemporary, yet very cosy and comfortable restaurant.

There is no real ale, but local beers are available in keg form. Although customers can just have a drink in the small bar area, the Plough is really now a high-end restaurant.

The Instagram account for this venue is viewable by left clicking on https://www.instagram.com/theploughshiplake.

The Historic England website entry for this pub is viewable by left clicking on https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1472241.

Historic Interest

Historic England Grade II listed, entry number 1472241. Public house with historic core dating to around 1600 with extensions from the early C19 to the south and a substantial northern brick range added by 1898.

Information for this venue is provided by the South Oxfordshire Branch of CAMRA
Previous Names
Plowden Arms
Local Authority
South Oxfordshire District
Last updated
09/01/2025
Last surveyed
03/03/2023
Leasehold owner
unknown
Freehold owner
Big Betty Food Company Limited
Pub ID
SOX/0940
Asset of Community Value
Opening Times Unavailable

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Transport
Close to bus routes (100m)
Reading Buses: 28, 28a (not Sun nor public holidays)
Directions
on A4155

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