Thatch, firelight
& a proper pint
Pouring, feeding and putting up travellers on the Duxford road since 1660.
Everything a village pub should be
Low beams, a real fire, four ales on the pump and a kitchen that takes Sunday seriously. Dogs, boots and small people all welcome.
The kitchen
Proper seasonal cooking — game in autumn, fish on Fridays, and a Sunday roast people drive out of Cambridge for.
This week’s menu →The cellar
Four cask ales kept properly — including John Barleycorn Bitter, brewed for the house — plus Old Rosie cider on gravity.
What’s on the pumps →Stay the night
Four ensuite rooms under the thatch, each named for a Duxford pilot. Two minutes from IWM, twenty from Cambridge.
About the rooms →Spitfires over the barley
We were a coaching inn for 250 years before anyone dreamt of flying. Then the aerodrome arrived over the hedge — and through the Battle of Britain, the pilots of RAF Duxford made this their local.
Their photographs still hang here. Our rooms carry their names.
Read our storyFour rooms under the thatch
Ensuite rooms up in the eaves, each named for a pilot who flew from Duxford. Breakfast in the bar, the aerodrome five minutes away and Cambridge twenty. On summer weekends you can hear the Spitfires from the garden.
- Four ensuite doubles
- Breakfast included
- Free parking through the gate
- Two minutes from IWM Duxford
Two minutes from the Imperial War Museum
| Monday | 15 – 20.30 |
| Tuesday — today | 15 – 20.30 |
| Wednesday | 12 – 23 |
| Thursday | 12 – 23 |
| Friday | 12 – 23 |
| Saturday | 12 – 23 |
| Sunday | 12 – 23 |
3 Moorfield Road, Duxford, Cambridge CB22 4PP
01223 662146 · [email protected]