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Punchbowl, Abingdon (Punch Bowl)

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6 Market Place, Abingdon, OX14 3HG (View on Google Map)
(01235) 352861
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  • Historic Interior

A traditional locals' town pub with two rooms - a fairly basic front bar accessed off the Market Place, and a superb panelled snug, C18 or earlier, with wood panelling, low beams and fixed bench seating, listed by CAMRA for it's historic interior and accessed down a passageway off East St Helen Street and linked to the bar through a serving hatch. First recorded as an inn in 1775 and has had various names. Has increasingly rare etched glass windows with the insignia of Morland's 'United Breweries'.

Historic Interest

Listed as early C17 timber-framed, brick building. On CAMRA's National Inventory of Historic Pub Interiors grade One Star.

Information for this venue is provided by the Oxford Branch of CAMRA
Previous Names
Local Authority
Vale of White Horse District
Last updated
22/10/2025
Last surveyed
Leasehold owner
unknown
Freehold owner
Greene King
Pub ID
OXF/AS-18
Asset of Community Value

One star - A pub interior of special national historic interest

Listed status: II

A partly early seventeenth-century timber-framed building. It’s included here for the Oak Room, a delightful low-ceilinged lounge accessed on the side via a brick-floored passageway. The walls of this carpeted room have eighteenth-century (or earlier) dark wood panelling and some fixed bench seating along the outside wall. The fielded-panelled counter appears to be interwar, as does the fire-surround and three movable benches which carry a band of pretty decoration. The little alcove is in fact a fairly modern creation. A plan in the modernised public bar at the front, and dating perhaps from the interwar period, shows there was a staircase in this area. The plan also shows that the front bar formerly had three small rooms.

Monday
Noon - Midnight
Tuesday
Noon - Midnight
Wednesday
Noon - Midnight
Thursday
Noon - Midnight
Friday
Noon - 1:00am
Saturday
Noon - 1:00am
Sunday
Noon - Midnight
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Current beers

This Pub serves 1 changing beer and 1 regular beer.

Regular and recently seen

Morland - Original Bitter TasteMatch Prediction

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Morland - Original Bitter
Morland - Original Bitter Session Bitter • 4% Spotted 3 times.
Morland - Original Bitter
Morland - Original Bitter

This beer is served regularly and Spotted 3 times. at Punchbowl, Abingdon.

ABV 4%
Cask
Style Session Bitter
Colour
Vegan No
Gluten Free No
Changing

Changing beers typically include: Greene King (varies) , Timothy Taylor - Landlord

Source: National

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Live Music Live Music
Occasional local live bands
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Dog Friendly Dog Friendly
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Games Games
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Transport
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