Fox andHounds

The Fox and Hounds occupies a building on the High Street in Uffington dating from around the early 1600s, making it roughly 400 years old. It became a free house in 2010, ending any brewery tie, and has since built a reputation through CAMRA's Good Beer Guide for its two regular and three rotating cask ales served across a single beamed bar. An August bank holiday beer festival has become an annual fixture, and local Morris dancers perform there twice a year. The pub sits below the Ridgeway path with views toward the Uffington White Horse hill figure, in a village with literary associations to Thomas Hughes, author of Tom Brown's Schooldays, and to poet John Betjeman, who lived nearby in the 1930s and 1940s. The interior retains an open fire, antique bottles and an old till. Dogs are welcome throughout. As a free house rather than a managed or tenanted pub-company site, it sets its own cask ale list independent of any brewery.