Which pubs with rooms in Stow-on-the-Wold have parking?

None of the four we've listed advertises its own car park — Stow's Market Square and streets around it are lined with pay-and-display, and that's what everyone uses, pub guests included. Budget for a short walk with your bags rather than expecting to pull up outside.

What counts as a "pub with rooms" in Stow-on-the-Wold?

A bar you could walk into for a pint, not a boutique hotel that keeps a bar for the look of it. The Old Stocks Inn brands itself as a "boutique hotel" and we nearly left it off on that basis — but its own bar page says "no need to book, just turn up," which is a genuine walk-in pub bar whatever the marketing calls the rooms upstairs. We've included it on that basis, flagged plainly.

Is it true the Porch House is the oldest inn in England?

That's the pub's own claim, based on timbers in the building carbon-dated to the 10th century — we haven't independently verified the dating, but it's a widely repeated and long-standing claim about the building, not something invented for a listing site.

Pubs with Rooms / Cotswolds

Pubs with Rooms in Stow-on-the-Wold

A hilltop market town on the Fosse Way, with more pubs on one square than anywhere else in the Cotswolds.

Also covers pubs in Lower Oddington.

Stow-on-the-Wold at a glance

We cover 4 pubs with rooms in and around Stow-on-the-Wold. 3 allow dogs in the bedrooms. We haven't found a bedroom dog policy for 1. 4 are gastropubs or serious dining pubs.

Pub details last checked September 2026.

Stow-on-the-Wold sits on a hilltop where the Fosse Way crosses several old droving roads, which is the practical reason it became a market town in the first place — sheep from most of the Cotswolds passed through its square on the way to somewhere else. That square is now ringed with pubs rather than livestock pens, and it’s an unusually dense cluster for a town this size: four genuine pubs with rooms within a couple of minutes’ walk of each other.

The Porch House claims to be the oldest inn in England, with timbers dated to the 10th century; the Bell and the Old Stocks Inn are both more recent but still proper coaching inns, the latter keeping a genuine walk-in bar despite branding itself a boutique hotel. Out at Lower Oddington, a couple of miles east, the Fox is the village option — modern British food in a 17th-century building, worth the short drive if the town centre feels too busy.

Stow gets crowded — it’s one of the most-visited Cotswolds towns — so weekend parking and dinner bookings both need more planning than the size of the place would suggest.

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Pubs in Stow-on-the-Wold
Pubs nearby
Dog policy, compared
Food, compared
Questions

In Stow-on-the-Wold

Stow-on-the-Wold

Photo: Philip Halling, CC BY-SA 2.0

The Bell at Stow

Gastropub

From published sources

Full details →Check availability — Booking.com

Stow-on-the-Wold

Photo: Richard Law, CC BY-SA 2.0

The Old Stocks Inn

Destination dining

Dog welcome in the room and at dinner.

From published sources

Full details →Check availability — Booking.com

Stow-on-the-Wold

Photo: Martin Richard Phelan, CC BY-SA 2.0

The Porch House

Gastropub

Dog welcome in the room and at dinner.

From published sources

Full details →Check availability — Booking.com

Just outside Stow-on-the-Wold

Not in Stow-on-the-Wold itself, but close enough to stay — the town's shops, pubs and sights are only a short trip in from any of these.

Stow-on-the-Wold

Photo: Philip Halling, CC BY-SA 2.0

The Fox at Oddington

Lower Oddington — About 2.5 miles east of Stow-on-the-Wold

Gastropub

From published sources

Full details →Visit pub website

Dog policy, compared

All of this is from published sources — none of these pubs have been confirmed with us directly yet.

Pub	Dogs in bedroom	Dogs at dinner	Charge
The Bell at Stow Stow-on-the-Wold	Selected rooms only	Not confirmed	£25 / night
The Fox at Oddington Lower Oddington	Not confirmed	Dogs welcome at dinner	Not confirmed
The Old Stocks Inn Stow-on-the-Wold	Selected rooms only	Dogs in certain areas only	£15 / night
The Porch House Stow-on-the-Wold	Selected rooms only	Dogs welcome at dinner	£20 / night

Food, compared

All of this is from published sources — none of these pubs have been confirmed with us directly yet.

Pub	Standard	Kitchen	Booking
The Bell at Stow Stow-on-the-Wold	Gastropub	Every day	Not confirmed
The Fox at Oddington Lower Oddington	Gastropub	Every day	Not confirmed
The Old Stocks Inn Stow-on-the-Wold	Destination dining 1 award	Not confirmed	Not confirmed
The Porch House Stow-on-the-Wold	Gastropub	Every day	Not confirmed

Questions people ask about Stow-on-the-Wold

Which pubs with rooms in Stow-on-the-Wold have parking?: None of the four we've listed advertises its own car park — Stow's Market Square and streets around it are lined with pay-and-display, and that's what everyone uses, pub guests included. Budget for a short walk with your bags rather than expecting to pull up outside.
What counts as a "pub with rooms" in Stow-on-the-Wold?: A bar you could walk into for a pint, not a boutique hotel that keeps a bar for the look of it. The Old Stocks Inn brands itself as a "boutique hotel" and we nearly left it off on that basis — but its own bar page says "no need to book, just turn up," which is a genuine walk-in pub bar whatever the marketing calls the rooms upstairs. We've included it on that basis, flagged plainly.
Is it true the Porch House is the oldest inn in England?: That's the pub's own claim, based on timbers in the building carbon-dated to the 10th century — we haven't independently verified the dating, but it's a widely repeated and long-standing claim about the building, not something invented for a listing site.