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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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A traditional 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 Morlands '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
15/01/2024
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.

Tuesday
11:30am - 11:30pm
Wednesday
11:30am - 11:30pm
Thursday
11:30am - 11:30pm
Friday
11:30am - Midnight
Saturday
11:30am - Midnight
Sunday
Noon - 10:30pm
Monday
11:30am - 11:30pm

Current beers

This Pub serves 1 changing beer and 1 regular beer.

Regular and recently seen
Morland - Original Bitter
Morland - Original Bitter Session Bitter • 4% Spotted twice
Morland - Original Bitter
Morland - Original Bitter

Session Bitter

Dispense: Handpump
ABV: 4%
Vegan: No
Gluten Free: No
This beer is served regularly.
Spotted twice recently. Last spotted 5 days ago
Changing

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

Source: National

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X3, X13, 35, X4

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