Christmas Day lunch near Abingdon from £54.99 at the Roaring Raindrop to £120 at the Merry Miller: nine pubs with 2026 prices, child rates and deposits.

For Christmas Day in Abingdon, most people start with the Nag’s Head on its island by Abingdon Bridge (£110 for four courses) or head out to the thatched Barley Mow at Clifton Hampden (£90). The lowest price is at the Roaring Raindrop on Preston Road, at £54.99 for four courses. Every entry was checked against the venue’s own site on 1 November 2026.

We have not eaten at any of these for this guide, and nothing here is a review. Each entry gives the 2026 Christmas Day price from the venue’s own Christmas page or menu, the child price and deposit where published, and the Food Standards Agency hygiene rating. All nine are rated 5, the top score. Christmas Day 2026 falls on a Friday, and most of these want a deposit and a pre-order well before the day.

In Abingdon

1. The Nag’s Head, Abingdon Bridge

The Nag’s Head is the Brakspear pub on the island in the middle of Abingdon Bridge, with the Thames on both sides. Its Christmas page promises “a full festive feast with all the trimmings” and “a view you won’t get anywhere else in Abingdon”.

The Christmas Day menu is four courses for £110, with sharing breads for the table, then mains including roast turkey, pan-roasted monkfish with lobster and brandy bisque, and 12-hour pork belly; the fillet steak is £10 extra. The kids’ menu is £39 for children under 10.

Price Christmas Day four courses £110 an adult; children under 10 £39
Booking book online through the pub's Christmas page; optional 10% service on tables of 8 or more
Call 01235 639023
Address Bridge Street, Abingdon, OX14 3HX
Hygiene rating 5, Food Standards Agency, 5 August 2026
Website thenagsheadonthethames.co.uk/christmas-in-abingdon
Good for riverside, children's price, vegan main, town centre

2. The Roaring Raindrop, Preston Road

The Roaring Raindrop is the Greene King pub on Preston Road, on the south side of town. Its Christmas Day page offers four courses for £54.99, the lowest Christmas Day price in this guide, and mentions pigs in blankets, breaded Brie and king prawns in Marie Rose sauce among the dishes.

A £10 deposit for each adult and each child secures the table; full payment is due by 1 December, and after 18 December the pub asks people to phone for any last tables.

Price Christmas Day four courses £54.99 a person
Booking £10 per adult and per child deposit; full payment by 1 December 2026
Call 01235 535593
Address Preston Road, Abingdon, OX14 5NR
Hygiene rating 5, Food Standards Agency, 23 October 2025
Website greeneking.co.uk/pubs/oxfordshire/roaring-raindrop/christmas/christmas-day
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Good for lowest price in this guide, four courses, south Abingdon

Radley, Milton and Steventon

3. The Bowyer Arms, Radley

The Bowyer Arms is the Hive Pubs pub on Foxborough Road in Radley, a mile or so north-east of the town centre. Its Christmas page links a Christmas Day menu of four courses for £64.99: starters such as baked Camembert or a seafood cocktail, then hand-carved turkey, a cranberry nut roast, salmon and prawns or a topped sirloin, dessert, and a mince pie with tea or coffee to finish.

The kids’ Christmas Day menu is three courses for £21.99, the lowest child price in this guide. The menu asks for a £10 non-refundable deposit for every adult and child.

Price Christmas Day four courses £64.99 an adult; kids' three courses £21.99
Booking £10 per adult and per child non-refundable deposit; pre-booking required
Call 01235 523452
Address Foxborough Road, Radley, Abingdon, OX14 3AE
Hygiene rating 5, Food Standards Agency, 30 September 2025
Website bowyerarms.co.uk/christmas
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Good for children's price, vegan option, four courses

4. Miller & Carter, Milton Gate

Miller & Carter is the steakhouse at Milton Gate, by the A34 Milton interchange. Its Christmas Day menu is £109.95 a person and is built around the chain’s steaks, with starters such as a prawn and smoked salmon cocktail or twice-baked cauliflower.

The young guests’ Christmas Day menu starts at £49.95. The restaurant’s booking information asks for a £10 a head deposit on all Christmas Day tables, with full payment and the pre-order due by 1 December.

Price Christmas Day £109.95 a person; young guests' menu from £49.95
Booking £10 per person deposit; full payment and pre-order by 1 December 2026
Call 01235 831464
Address 4 Milton Gate, Milton, Abingdon, OX14 4FP
Hygiene rating 5, Food Standards Agency, 17 March 2025
Website millerandcarter.co.uk/restaurants/south-east/millerandcarterdidcot/christmas
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Good for steak menu, children's price, parking at Milton Gate

5. The Fox, Steventon

The Fox is the village pub at 29 High Street, Steventon, with rooms. Its Christmas page links a Christmas Day menu at £69.99 an adult and £34.99 a child.

Mains are a turkey dinner with pigs in blankets, slow-cooked beef feather blade, a minted lamb shank, salmon fillet or a carrot Wellington for vegetarians and vegans, and the meal ends with a mince pie and brandy butter with tea or coffee. A cheese board is £8 a head extra.

The menu does not set out deposit terms, so ask when you book.

Price Christmas Day £69.99 an adult, £34.99 a child; cheese board £8 extra
Booking book through the pub; deposit terms not published
Address 29 High Street, Steventon, Abingdon, OX13 6RZ
Hygiene rating 5, Food Standards Agency, 18 November 2025
Website thefoxsteventon.co.uk/christmas
Good for village pub, children's price, vegan main

Country pubs around Abingdon

6. The Barley Mow, Clifton Hampden

The Barley Mow is the thatched Chef & Brewer pub on the Long Wittenham side of Clifton Hampden bridge, about four miles east of Abingdon. Its Christmas Day page offers three courses for £90 a person.

Mains include hand-carved roast turkey, 10-hour slow-cooked beef cheeks, sea bass and king prawns, a St Clement’s glazed lamb rump, and cheddar and leek or squash and sweet potato tarts. There is a young guests’ menu and a no-gluten menu.

The deposit is £10 an adult and £5 a child, with choices and payment due by 11 December for tables booked before then.

Price Christmas Day three courses £90 a person
Booking £10 per adult and £5 per child deposit; pre-orders by 11 December 2026
Call 01865 407847
Address Clifton Hampden Road, Clifton Hampden, Abingdon, OX14 3EH
Hygiene rating 5, Food Standards Agency, 20 March 2025, South Oxfordshire District Council
Website chefandbrewer.com/pubs/oxfordshire/barley-mow/christmas/christmas-day
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Good for thatched pub, Thames walks, vegetarian mains, no-gluten menu

7. The Merry Miller, Cothill

The Merry Miller is the pub and restaurant on Cothill Road at Dry Sandford, north-west of Abingdon, and its own site says its Sunday carvery is “what we’ve become famous for across the county”. The Christmas Day 2026 menu carries that over: the main course is a carvery of turkey, pork, venison, lamb and glazed ham, or monkfish and prawn stew, fillet steak Diane or a vegan coulibiac, with desserts and cheese served for the table to share.

It is £120 an adult and £60 for children under 12, the dearest in this guide, and the deposit is £60 a head, with full payment by Tuesday 1 December.

Price Christmas Day £120 an adult, £60 a child under 12
Booking £60 per person deposit; full payment by 1 December 2026, no refunds after that date
Call 01865 390390
Address Cothill Road, Dry Sandford, Abingdon, OX13 6JW
Hygiene rating 5, Food Standards Agency, 29 May 2025
Website merrymiller.co.uk
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Good for carvery, sharing desserts, children's price, vegan main

8. The Fishes, North Hinksey

The Fishes is the Peach Pubs pub in North Hinksey village, off the A34 between Botley and Oxford. Its Christmas flyer offers three courses on Christmas Day for £110: starters including celeriac and apple soup or smoked salmon and hand-picked crab, then free-range turkey, roast sirloin of beef, ChalkStream trout or a butternut squash, lentil and chestnut Wellington, and a sherry trifle among the puddings.

An optional 12.5% service charge is added to all bills. No child price is published.

Price Christmas Day three courses £110 a person; optional 12.5% service charge
Booking book through the pub's website or by phone
Call 01865 249796
Address North Hinksey Village, Oxford, OX2 0NA
Hygiene rating 5, Food Standards Agency, 7 May 2026
Website peachpubs.com/pubs/the-fishes
Good for plant-based main, private dining room, beef or turkey

Wantage

9. The Lord Nelson, Wantage

The Lord Nelson is the Greene King pub at 78 Charlton Road, Wantage. Its Christmas Day page offers three courses for £61.

Mains are hand-carved roast turkey with a pig in blanket and Yorkshire pudding, a duo of salmon and Black Tiger prawns, a cranberry glazed nut roast (vegan option available) and a 28-day aged sirloin with prawns and béarnaise. The deposit is £10 an adult and £10 a child, full payment is due by 1 December, and after 18 December bookings are by phone only.

Price Christmas Day three courses £61 a person
Booking £10 per adult and per child deposit; full payment by 1 December 2026
Call 01235 763415
Address 78 Charlton Road, Wantage, OX12 8HL
Hygiene rating 5, Food Standards Agency, 18 June 2025
Website greeneking.co.uk/pubs/oxfordshire/lord-nelson/christmas/christmas-day
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Good for Wantage, vegan option, steak main

Not in this year’s list

Some places people ask about are not here, and this is why. The White Hart at Fyfield, the Eyston Arms at East Hendred and the Greyhound at Letcombe Regis all say on their own sites that they are closed on Christmas Day 2026. The Boundary House on Oxford Road, Abingdon, and the Bay Tree at Grove take Christmas Day bookings with a £10 deposit, but their Christmas pages publish no price. The Bear Hotel in Wantage still shows a Christmas Day menu dated 2024. The Plum Pudding at Milton publishes a Christmas menu for parties, not for Christmas Day.

How we chose

These are the pubs and restaurants in and around Abingdon that publish a 2026 Christmas Day price on their own websites and hold a Food Standards Agency hygiene rating of 3 or more; all nine hold a 5. Every price, deposit and deadline comes from the venue’s own Christmas page or menu PDF, read on 1 November 2026. Hygiene ratings come from the FSA register; the Barley Mow is rated by South Oxfordshire District Council, the rest by the Vale of White Horse. Prices and availability change as tables fill, so check with the venue before you book. Run a place that should be here, or spot something that has changed? Email newsdesk@abingdononline.co.uk. Taken a good photograph of any of these places? Email it to newsdesk@abingdononline.co.uk and we will add it with your name as the credit.

For more on the season, see our guides to the Abingdon Christmas markets, the Christmas lights switch-on, Father Christmas in Abingdon, light trails and ice skating near Abingdon and Christmas trains and travel, plus what’s on this month, things to do in Abingdon and the Abingdon pubs in our directory.

Frequently asked questions

Where can I have Christmas dinner in Abingdon on Christmas Day 2026?

These pubs and restaurants in and around Abingdon publish a Christmas Day 2026 price on their own websites: the Nag’s Head on Abingdon Bridge (£110), the Roaring Raindrop on Preston Road (£54.99), the Bowyer Arms in Radley (£64.99), Miller & Carter at Milton Gate (£109.95), the Barley Mow at Clifton Hampden (£90), the Merry Miller at Cothill (£120), the Fishes at North Hinksey (£110), the Fox at Steventon (£69.99) and the Lord Nelson in Wantage (£61).

What is the cheapest Christmas Day lunch near Abingdon?

The Roaring Raindrop on Preston Road charges £54.99 for four courses, the lowest Christmas Day price in this guide. The Lord Nelson in Wantage is £61 for three courses and the Bowyer Arms in Radley £64.99 for four.

How much is Christmas dinner for children near Abingdon?

Where a child price is published: £21.99 for three courses at the Bowyer Arms, £34.99 at the Fox in Steventon, £39 for under-10s at the Nag’s Head, from £49.95 at Miller & Carter and £60 for under-12s at the Merry Miller.