The White Hart at Fyfield, near Abingdon, has been named the 11th best pub in Britain.

The village pub, about five miles west of Abingdon beside Kingston Bagpuize, is number 11 in the Good Food Guide’s list of Britain’s 100 Best Pubs 2026, published on 2 November.

The guide picks out pubs across Britain “serving honest, top-quality cooking in a warm, welcoming setting”.

The White Hart is the highest-placed pub in Oxfordshire, while the top spot went to the Queens Arms in Eccles, Greater Manchester.

Why the White Hart made the list

“There are newly tarted-up pubs and then there’s the White Hart,” the guide says, “which dates back to the 1400s and has been posh for centuries.”

“‘Baronial’ is always the first word that springs to mind,” it adds, describing “the dramatic dining room with its soaring oak-beamed ceiling, flagstone floor, stone-mullioned windows and impressive inglenook fireplace”.

It credits “friendly, casually dressed staff” and “a separate and equally venerable bar (complete with real ales and local drinkers)” with keeping the place from feeling starchy.

The pub’s kitchen garden and local farms supply many of the ingredients for its seasonal menus, according to the guide.

It picks out a fig, coppa and goat’s cheese salad, and sea bream with tomato and anchovy vinaigrette and saffron gnocchi.

It also praises “a serious wine list”, a summer house and a beer garden with a summertime pizza kitchen.

The guide ends with a line it says “sums it up perfectly”: “Amazing seasonal food, creative dishes, first-class staff and a beautiful historic building”.

Where to find it and when it opens

The White Hart is on Main Road in Fyfield, OX13 5LW, just off the A420.

Mark and Kay Chandler arrived in 2005 and, in their own words, have “lovingly restored this beautiful 15th century hostelry”.

The pub says it has held two rosettes for culinary excellence for twenty years, and that its chefs make the bread, pasta and ice cream on the premises every day.

Its contact page says it is closed on Mondays, except bank holidays.

Food is served from 12pm to 2.15pm and 5.45pm to 9pm from Tuesday to Friday, until 2.30pm at Saturday lunchtime, and from 12pm to 4pm on Sundays.

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