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Turnpike Forge
Turnpike Forge on the Abingdon Road in Clifton Hampden has operated as a…
CounterWinterbrook Garden Nurseries
Winterbrook Garden Nurseries occupies a site on the High Road in…
CultureUltimate Picture Palace
The Ultimate Picture Palace on Jeune Street, off Cowley Road, is Oxford's only…
LarderOck River Bakery
Ock River Bakery opened in September 2025 at 29-33 Ock Street in Abingdon, on…
RestGreyhounds
Greyhounds occupies a fifteenth-century building at 19-23 Sheep Street in…
CellarEynsham Cellars
Eynsham Cellars has traded as an independent wine merchant from 43 Mill Street…
Grounds
Down to Earth Community Cafe
Wantage, ENG
A community cafe at The Old Stables on Stirlings Close in Wantage, open Tuesday to Friday, 10am to…
FLTR Coffee
Bicester, ENG
A specialty coffee shop in Langford Village, Bicester, open since 2017. Serves espresso drinks made…
Ivydene Flower Farm
Minster Lovell, ENG
Flower farm on Burford Road between Witney and Burford, started in 2019 after the owner trained at…
Jericho Coffee Traders
Osney, ENG
Founders James and Lizzie Armitage started the business in 2009 after buying a Vespa tuk-tuk and…
Kickstand Coffee
Faringdon, ENG
A small, family-run coffee shop on London Street in Faringdon, opened in 2024. Serves espresso and…
The Biker Bean Coffeehouse
Chinnor, ENG
A specialty coffeehouse on Thame Road in Chinnor, at the foot of the Chilterns escarpment near the…
The Ox Club
Watlington, ENG
A cafe on Watlington's High Street run by cousins Liv and Toni since 2023. Serves espresso from…
The Rose Oxford
Oxford, ENG
An independent tea room on Oxford's High Street, trading since 1985 from a mock-Tudor building that…
UE Coffee Roasters
Witney, ENG
Dominic and Daniella Boyett founded UE Coffee Roasters in 2009 with the aim of becoming…
Table
Bistro at The Boathouse
Henley-on-Thames, ENG
Shaun and Gemma Dickens run Bistro at the Boathouse from a former boathouse on Henley-on-Thames's…
Brothertons Brasserie
Woodstock, ENG
Brothertons Brasserie serves Italian bistro food from a High Street address in Woodstock, with…
Copper Kitchen
Bicester, ENG
Bistro on Sheep Street opened in 2014 by chef-owner Kushtrim, known locally as Kush, who runs the…
Cornfield Bakery
Thame, ENG
Derek Coleman opened Cornfield Bakery in 1972, and it is now run by the third generation of the…
Five Little Pigs
Wallingford, ENG
Five Little Pigs opened on St Mary's Street in Wallingford in 2021, set up by chef Aimee Collins…
Kali
Thame, ENG
Kali is a vegetarian café on Upper High Street run by Simon and Lara Thompson, who settled in Thame…
Monkey Puzzle
Thame, ENG
Monkey Puzzle opened on Thame's Upper High Street on 16 March 2023, at number 18, as an independent…
No33 Didcot
Didcot, ENG
Independent cafe on the Great Western Park estate in Didcot, open seven days a week for breakfast,…
Nut Tree Inn
Murcott, ENG
A thatched fifteenth-century pub in the small hamlet of Murcott, a few miles from Bicester, run…
Oli's Thai
East Oxford, ENG
Oli's Thai is a small independent restaurant on Magdalen Road in East Oxford, run by Rufus and Ladd…
R&R
Abingdon, ENG
Independent cafe on Abingdon's Market Place, run by Rachel and her team. Scones and sausage rolls…
Rustica Bistrot
Bicester, ENG
A family-run Italian restaurant and deli in Bicester's Pioneer Square, known for pinsa Romana and…
Larder
Broadway Butchers
Didcot, ENG
Broadway Butchers has traded from the same shop on Didcot's Broadway since 1985 under owner Phil…
Charlbury Deli & Cafe
Charlbury, ENG
Charlbury Deli & Cafe traces back to the Good Food Shop, set up around 1990 and now run as a…
Dews Meadow Farm Shop
Wantage, ENG
A family-run farm shop and butchery in East Hanney that rears and butchers its own free-range lamb,…
Gatineau
Summertown, ENG
Gatineau is a French patisserie and bakery on Banbury Road in Summertown, Oxford, opened in 2007 by…
Millets Farm Centre
Frilford, ENG
John and Christine Carter bought Millets Farm, then a dairy farm, in 1952, and the Carter family…
Nash's Bakery
Bicester, ENG
Craft bakery on Sheep Street founded in 1929 by Will and Winnifred Nash and still run by their…
Ock River Bakery
Abingdon, ENG
Ock River Bakery opened in September 2025 at 29-33 Ock Street in Abingdon, on the site of a former…
Oxford Cheese Company
City Centre, ENG
Robert Pouget de St Victor opened the shop in Oxford's Covered Market in 1983, building…
Peter Goss Butchers
Bicester, ENG
Traditional butcher on Bucknell Road founded by Peter Goss in 1972, now run by director Dale Grant…
Q Gardens Farm Shop
Steventon, ENG
Q Gardens Farm Shop trades from Milton Hill on the edge of Steventon, between Abingdon and Wantage,…
Sandy Lane Farm Shop
Tiddington, near Thame, ENG
Charles and Sue Bennett, with their children Cate and George, grow organic vegetables on Sandy Lane…
Wykham Park Farm Shop
Banbury, ENG
A fifth-generation family farm on the edge of Banbury, selling meat from its own Aberdeen Angus and…
Culture
Chipping Norton Museum of Local History
Chipping Norton, ENG
Volunteer-run local history museum on the first floor of Chipping Norton's former Co-operative…
Chipping Norton Theatre
Chipping Norton, ENG
The Theatre in Chipping Norton occupies a Salvation Army Citadel built in 1888, later used as a…
Jack's Gallery
Henley-on-Thames, ENG
Jack's Gallery occupies a shopfront on Hart Street that art dealer Jack Free opened in 2013 after…
SOTA Gallery
Witney, ENG
An independent gallery on a pedestrian walkway in Witney showing work from over one hundred…
The Kyffin Gallery
Woodstock, ENG
Gallery on Market Street dealing in original paintings and limited-edition prints by the Welsh…
The Mill Arts Centre
Banbury, ENG
A charity-run arts venue in a converted Victorian grain mill beside the Oxford Canal in Banbury,…
The North Wall Arts Centre
Summertown, ENG
The North Wall Arts Centre in Summertown, Oxford, opened in 2007 on the site of a listed Victorian…
Ultimate Picture Palace
Oxford, ENG
The Ultimate Picture Palace on Jeune Street, off Cowley Road, is Oxford's only surviving…
Wallingford Museum
Wallingford, ENG
Wallingford Museum opened to the public in 1981 inside Flint House, a medieval oak-beamed building…
Witney Blanket Hall
Witney, ENG
Built in 1721 by the Company of Blanket Makers, the Hall was where every blanket woven in Witney…
Workshop
Bernwood Pottery
Horton-cum-Studley, ENG
Ceramic artist Elizabeth Murphy set up her studio in a barn on her family's farm in 2022, on…
Daisyroots Ceramics
Crawley, Witney, ENG
Paint-your-own pottery and ceramics studio in a 17th-century mill cottage beside the River Windrush…
Dolphin Gallery
Wantage, ENG
Dolphin Gallery was founded in 1999 by the artist Beryl Maile and passed to framer and gallery…
Mags' Pottery
Kennington, ENG
Mags' Pottery is a small independent ceramics studio on Upper Road in Kennington, just south of…
Oxford Clayhouse
North Parade, ENG
Hannah Yeadon, who trained at Camberwell School of Art in 1994 and later took an MA in Ceramics at…
Oxfordshire Arts
East Hendred, near Wantage, ENG
Alison and Mark started Oxfordshire Arts in 2014 in a garden studio in Abingdon before moving the…
Simply Potty
Grove, ENG
Simply Potty runs pottery courses from a converted stable at Grove House on Station Road in Grove,…
Thame Jewellery Workshop
Thame, ENG
Thame Jewellery Workshop was established on the High Street in Thame in 2014 by Robert French and…
The Potter's Wheel Wallingford
Wallingford, ENG
Independent pottery studio and artisan shop in central Wallingford, run by a ceramicist as a…
Turnpike Forge
Abingdon, ENG
Turnpike Forge on the Abingdon Road in Clifton Hampden has operated as a working smithy since…
Witney Framing
Witney, ENG
Family-owned picture framing workshop with 25 years in the trade, operating from premises inside…
Ye Olde Woodworkery
Wantage, ENG
A family joinery workshop in Wantage that has been building kitchens, staircases and bespoke…
Counter
Applegarth Nurseries
Chipping Norton, ENG
Independent garden centre and plant nursery on the edge of Chipping Norton, selling locally grown…
Bunkers Hill Plant Nursery
Kidlington, ENG
Family-run plant nursery started in 1992 on a small patch of lawn and now growing more than 200…
Charlton Park Garden Centre
Wantage, ENG
Charlton Park Garden Centre sits on Charlton Road on the edge of Wantage, on land that traces back…
Greens of Thame
Thame, ENG
Soft-furnishings and interior design shop on Upper High Street, trading since 1963 and long run by…
Headington Fairtrade
Headington, ENG
Headington Fairtrade is a community-owned shop on London Road in Headington, Oxford, selling fair…
Johnsons of Deddington
Deddington, ENG
An independent timber and builders' merchant trading from a yard off Deddington's market square for…
Jonkers Rare Books
Henley-on-Thames, ENG
Jonkers Rare Books occupies a shopfront at 27 Hart Street, Henley-on-Thames, where Christiaan…
Mostly Books
Abingdon, ENG
Sarah Dennis has owned Mostly Books on Abingdon's Stert Street since 2017, when she bought the shop…
Objects of Use
Oxford, ENG
An independent shop on Market Street beside the Covered Market, selling well-made everyday tools…
Purely Plants
Wallingford, ENG
Purely Plants is an independent nursery down a lane off Wantage Road on the edge of Wallingford,…
Root One Garden Centre & Cafe
Brightwell-cum-Sotwell, ENG
Root One occupies a site on the High Road between Wallingford and Didcot, run as an independent…
The Bell Bookshop
Henley-on-Thames, ENG
The Bell Bookshop occupies an eighteenth-century building on Bell Street and has traded as an…
Cellar
Abingdon Distillery
Abingdon, ENG
Independent gin, rum and whisky distillery in central Abingdon, founded in 2018 after its owner…
Brightwell Vineyard
Wallingford, ENG
Vines were first planted at Brightwell in the late 1980s, on land a mile north of Wallingford…
Chadlington Brewery
Chadlington, ENG
A family-owned brewery on a working farm outside Chadlington, brewing with Oxfordshire spring water…
Eynsham Cellars
Eynsham, ENG
Eynsham Cellars has traded as an independent wine merchant from 43 Mill Street in Eynsham since…
Hook Norton Brewery
Hook Norton, ENG
Tower brewery founded in 1849 by farmer John Harris and still owned by his descendants, the Harris…
Little Ox Brew Co
Freeland, ENG
Little Ox Brew Co has brewed from a unit on the Wroslyn Road industrial estate in Freeland, just…
Loose Cannon Brewery
Abingdon, ENG
Loose Cannon Brewery has brewed from Unit 6, Suffolk Way, in Abingdon since Will Laithwaite founded…
Oxford Brewery
Horspath, ENG
Oxford Brewery brews on Manor Farm in Horspath, on the edge of Oxford at the foot of Shotover Hill,…
Sky Wave Distillery
Bicester Motion, Bicester, ENG
Rachel Hicks and Andy Parsons founded Sky Wave after years of travel failed to turn up a gin that…
The Apothecary Tap
Banbury, ENG
Craft beer bar and bottle shop on Butchers Row, opened in April 2019 by husband-and-wife team Rob…
The Henley Distillery
Binfield Heath, ENG
The Henley Distillery makes Henley Gin from a working farm site at Hampstead Farm in Binfield…
Twisted Tree Brewery
Tusmore, ENG
Twisted Tree Brewery is a family-run microbrewery established in 2024 at Park Farm in Tusmore,…
Snug
Fox and Hounds
Faringdon, ENG
The Fox and Hounds occupies a building on the High Street in Uffington dating from around the early…
Red Lion Eynsham
Eynsham, ENG
The Red Lion occupies a Grade II listed building dating to the sixteenth century on Eynsham's town…
The Brewery Tap Abingdon
Abingdon, ENG
Free house on Ock Street occupying three Grade II-listed former brewery buildings on the site of…
The Chandlers Arms
Epwell, ENG
A stone-built seventeenth-century pub in the small village of Epwell on the edge of the Cotswolds,…
The Crafty Pint Bar
Witney, ENG
Mel took over Witney's Crafty Pint Bar in July 2023, continuing a micropub at 8 Langdale Court that…
The Keep
Wallingford, ENG
The Keep opened on Castle Street in May 2016 in a converted art gallery, becoming Wallingford's…
The Kings Arms
Kidlington, ENG
The Kings Arms occupies a double-fronted limestone building on The Moors in Kidlington, put up…
The Lamb Inn Wantage
Wantage, ENG
Thatched pub on Mill Street, licensed since 1650 and reckoned to be the oldest building in Wantage…
The Library, Cowley Road
Cowley (East Oxford), ENG
The Library is an independent pub on Cowley Road in Cowley, East Oxford, opened in 2011. It…
The Oxfordshire Yeoman
Freeland, ENG
The Oxfordshire Yeoman occupies a building on Wroslyn Road in Freeland, near Witney, constructed in…
The Spire & Spoke
Watlington, ENG
A freehouse cafe-bar in a converted village pub on the edge of Watlington, popular with walkers and…
The Three Pigeons Witney
Witney, ENG
Grade II listed village pub on Witney's Wood Green, dating from the early-to-mid 17th century,…
Rest
Fords Farm
Ewelme, ENG
Fords Farm offers bed and breakfast accommodation in a farmhouse dating in part to the fifteenth…
Fyfield Manor
Benson, ENG
A family-run guesthouse in a manor house dating in part to the twelfth century, set in gardens…
Greyhounds
Burford, ENG
Greyhounds occupies a fifteenth-century building at 19-23 Sheep Street in Burford, built originally…
Heyford House
Lower Heyford, ENG
Small family-run bed and breakfast on a quiet lane opposite the church in Lower Heyford, run by…
Little Gables
Crowmarsh Gifford, Wallingford, ENG
Four-star-graded bed and breakfast in a detached house on Crowmarsh Hill on the edge of…
Lyne House
Kidlington, ENG
A five-room guesthouse in a 17th-century building on a quiet residential road, run by owners…
Manor Farm Bed and Breakfast West Challow
West Challow, ENG
Bed and breakfast in a Queen Anne period farmhouse on a working arable and grassland farm at the…
The Angel Restaurant
Long Crendon, ENG
Small independent restaurant with rooms in Long Crendon, a 16th-century coaching inn with four…
The Crown
Woodstock, ENG
Julian and Justine took on the Crown, a Grade II listed coaching inn on Woodstock's High Street,…
The Glove House
Woodstock, ENG
The Glove House occupies a Grade II listed building on Oxford Street in Woodstock dating back some…
The Laurels Guest House, Witney
Witney, ENG
The Laurels Guest House is a small family-run bed and breakfast on Burford Road in Witney, offering…
The Old Crown Coaching Inn
Faringdon, ENG
The Old Crown Coaching Inn occupies a 16th-century former coaching inn on Faringdon's Market Place,…
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