Oxford Pubs 

A review of Oxford pubs without any mention of Inspector Morse is quite an achievement. I have not been in the UK since 2008 so finding the prices hard to stomach. Timothy Taylors Landlord was amongst my favourite beers. Here in sunny Thailand a pint works out between £1.20 to £2.00 but not what anyone would call a real ale. The pubs, beer & countryside are all I miss about the UK. Thanks for posting, enjoyed the tour, for once outside of London.

The "back bar" at the King's Arms was burned down in the 1980s as is an attempted replacement. The difference was between the "town " and the "student" pubs. With the possible exception of the Crown, the vid is all about "student" pubs. Lots of other pubs now gone - the Golden Cross, The Roebuck, the Apollo, the Ship, the Horse and Jockey. Also the Jericho Tavern is/was a cracking place. Don't Know if the Gardeners Arms and the Rose & Crown on North Parade and the Osney Arms are still trading. Wonderful times and wonderful places in the 1980s. The White Horse on Broad St has happy memories. Clive took a lot of my money off me through the till but I also got some of it back as I also worked there. Also he'd let us "have" a bottle of whiskey so long as we "replaced" it the next day.

The Chequers and the Harcourt are two that would also been worth a mention but as a general introduction in one day, a brilliant job I’d say - great to hear someone that shares my general taste in ales!

The lamb and flag On a really hot day the back room by the toilets is so cool in temperature the thick walls don’t let any heat in . Back in the 90s the lamb was really popular with punks,goths and New Age travellers,on a weekend there was no where to sit inside it was always good fun and no trouble 😊

Thank you , Tweedy. We all sit down at dinner and enjoy your laidback self-deprecatory style. That you’re also a fan of Harvey’s Best clearly marks you out as a stout trencherman. Keep it up.

I'm really enjoying your pub tours Tweedy Pubs. They're informative and just plain enjoyable videos a must watch.

Reminds me of Alec Clifton-Taylor's talks in Six English Towns many years ago. Informative and entertaining.

Check out Jude the Obscure, the Vic Arms, the Gardener's Arms, and the Harcourt Arms . Royal Oak also good.

You missed The Chequers! Delightful old pub off the high st.

A bit of History and a few ales.... Superb work sir

Great video , thank you. I have been in most of these pubs many times. Including the Eagle and Child. I love almost all of them. However a few months ago I went to The Old Bookbinders Ale House in Jericho and I have to say it was fantastic. I think it was in the first Morse episode but used a different interior. Can't wait to get back to Oxford . Cheers.

It’s a bonus when the bonus pubs outnumber the planned pubs 😂 I forgot how small The White Horse was. Probably the last pub I’ve drunk in Oxford. Excellent pub crawl. 👏👏👍😀🍺

Only discovered your channel recently but have just about worked my way through all of your catalogue. Super enjoyable and informative, a walk down memory lane for me for, I was surprised how many pubs I had been to!

I'm getting the impression you can guess the age of a pub by the height of the ceiling. But you have to take into account any upper floors removed leaving just the timbers.

Superb! Especially the increasingly frenzied run of bonus pubs at the end! I used to drink in The Bear occasionally. It was great. There’s a very old video - now unlisted - of me running down a passageway near the Turf Tavern to get away from the camera. Ridiculous! Hope you got home OK!

Enjoyed this. As I sat down to have a beer you popped up; perfect timing, as I miss old English haunts (I live in Asia now). Speaking of haunts, you should definitely take a tour of York's offerings, especially around The Shambles towards Christmas time. The atmosphere and centuries-old pubs there are incredible in my mind.

Outstanding thank you tweedy 👍

Thanks Tweedy. The first four pubs looked great. Like you, I avoid pubs with loud music or live sport. My favourite was the Rose and Crown, lovely pub and one of my chosen beers Hook Norton Old Hooky. Youngs has not been a London beer for about 20 years. The brand was acquired by Charles Wells in Bedford and their 'Youngs' beers are a poor imitation of the Wandsworth brews. I rarely visit Oxford as it is a tortuous drive from my home in East Anglia, along single carriageways all the way. TV's Inspector Morse used to be seen drinking at a few Morrell's pubs. I once went to Oxford hoping to enjoy a few pints of Morrell's 'Oxford Blue', only to find that the Brewery had closed.

Oh, that was a pleasant surprise. The Gevrey-Chambertin wallah sent me here, and what do I find but a tour of some of my favourite drinking haunts in Oxford. Well, some of those that remain, at least. Good job, carry on.

Great video thanks very much. I recently went into the Three Goats Heads on St Michael’s street and thought that was very cool. It’s a Sam Smiths pub and I think it would be right up your street 👍

Fantastic tweedy another great video mate merry Christmas and thank you 👍

Love the history aspect of each pub. Try to include the beer history as well

You didn't mention the VERY RARE pewter bar in The Bear!

Another good video, many thanks. I do think you missed out by far the best pub in central Oxford though. And that would be The Royal Blenheim in St. Ebbe’s street. Just around the corner from St. Aldates Tavern. The beer selection & quality in the Blenheim is easily IMHO by far the very best in Oxford & the best prices too. If you like White Horse brewery that was the one for you too. 😊

Wonderful guide...Thank you. I hope you do Bath soon.

Really liked this video Tweedy - I’ve never been to Oxford, so it was interesting to see another side rather than the usual colleges/Morse view of the city. I think I’d like many of the pubs, especially with the absence of the F&B blue! Regards, Andrew Ps - I had to laugh at all the ‘bonus’ pubs - I wondered when you were going to stop!

My favourite so far

I think Oxford might be on the menu this weekend.

The "Andrew Gramham Dixon of pub history" 😎👍!

Hi. What an interesting selection of Oxford pubs and their histories. It`s nice to see the large selection of hand pumped beers in each one rather than the limited two or three in many pubs. Was the one with the display of neck wear a tied pub? Look forward to many more.

My mate had his stag do in Oxford. We started in the Lamb And Flag. There was about 10 of us. I was best man and asked if I had a stag do game for them. I had written down 20 challenges on 20 strips of folded paper. The young guys pulled a strip in a lucky dip. First challenge was to find a homeless beggar for the groom to shake hands with. Within 2 minutes the young guy had dragged a homeless man off the streets into the pub to shake hands with the groom.

Superb tweedy 👍👏

I sit in the same place in the white horse ....right at the back

I believe Inspector Morse drank at the White Crown!

Thanks for a great video, I could just imagine you crashing over tables and causing a melee if you had stayed any longer. 👍

I'm not sure how it is possible to do a tour of Oxford pubs without at least a mention of Colin Dextor, and his grumpy antisocial real ale loving detective, Inspector Morse. Virtually every pub in Oxford must have featured in the TV series. However, a couple of extra pubs that would have been worth a visit. In Jericho, there's the Old Bookbinders (formerly the Bookbinders Arms, and before that the Printers Devil). It is not hugely old, but was founded to serve the employees of the nearby Oxford University Press fairly early in the 19th century. It is close to the canal. The landlord is, or at least used to be French and the menu reflects that and used to have some moderately racy French photographs in the toilets, somewhat tamed down when last I visited. Another one, which takes a bit more of a walk down the Thames towpath, is the Perch. It's got a garden tucked just back from the west bank of the Thames on the opposite side to Port Meadow. Whilst the thatched, "plaster-rubble" building dates "only" from the 17th century, there's has, reputedly, been a drinking establishment on the site for at least 800 years. I used to go to some of these pubs after a ride with friends from Maidenhead, which built up a thirst. We usually ended up eating fish 'n' chips at the Eagle and Child, and it's sad to see the place in that state. It had a fairly tastelessly annexe at the back, made from a small glass-roofed rear courtyard, but the front of what must have once been a very small pub is clearly very old. In October 2023, it was announced that the pub had been bought by the Ellison Institute of Technology, who are building a campus in the city. The Ellison in the title is Larry Ellison, famous for having founded the Oracle Corporation and a rapacious appetite for buying tech companies. The campus is being designed by Norman Foster, or at least his practice and they will also be redesigning the Eagle and Child, apparently still as a pub. There is clearly no shortage of money, but what's going to become of the pub, we have yet to see.

Suspect you fell asleep on the train home

Myleast favorite is the 3 goatsheads

I've started reading Lewis' Out of the Silent Planet three times, but never got more than about halfway through. Strange really, as it actually seems rather good. I remember hearing that he wrote it as a result of some kind of bet, or dare type thing after being accused (by one of his contemporaries) of being unable to write science fiction.

Or the relative merits of cask vs keg!

It's a tough job but...

St Aldates tavern...formerly the bulldog

Yes I prefer Oxford to Cambridge pubs. Probably get bashed by a load of boxing blues one night.

Ideas for the next video, stop filming that bench, stop filming the car park, stop filming a tree, start film the facilities pal 🤣🤣🤣

Head of the river....expensive

Thankyou for review these pub look great but sadly no customer in there Am don't think english people are good financial situlation All the same overs the world Because other country making"Badly"war😠Am not happy with that too😠Stop the war now you should know what happen with other crisis?¿