The Falkland Arms
Great Tew is one of those villages that looks almost too perfect to be real, and The Falkland Arms sits right at its heart. Walk in, order a Wadworth 6X, and let the inglenook fireplace do the rest.
Great Tew is one of those villages that looks almost too perfect to be real, and The Falkland Arms sits right at its heart. Walk in, order a Wadworth 6X, and let the inglenook fireplace do the rest.
The Falkland Arms has been part of Great Tew since the 1500s, and it wears its age lightly. The floors are worn flagstone, the ceilings are low and timbered, and on cooler evenings the inglenook fire fills the room with the smell of woodsmoke. It is a proper country pub in every sense: Wadworth ales on handpull, hearty food that changes with the seasons, and a welcome that never feels rehearsed. On a warm afternoon the benches on the green fill up quickly, and you can sit with a glass of something cold while the village does very little around you.
From the cottage it is barely five minutes in the car, which makes it our most natural local. Great Tew itself is worth the visit even without the pub: honey-coloured stone, thatched roofs, a church on the hill, and none of the coach-party crowds you get in the bigger Cotswold villages. The Falkland Arms is the sort of place where you pop in for one drink and stay for three, then wander back along the lane wondering why every village doesn't have a pub this good.
“Our closest proper pub, and honestly one of the best. Five minutes from the front door, a pint of 6X by the fire. Hard to improve on that.”
All of this on the doorstep, and your own thatched cottage to come home to. Sleeps seven, less than a mile from Soho Farmhouse.