Brothers Olly and Will Oakley have joined forces to launch a pair of revamped 17th-century village pubs with rooms on the fringes of the Cotswolds in Oxfordshire. The Harcourt Arms in Stanton Harcourt, near Witney, and the Plough in William Morris’s village of Kelmscott, near Lechlade, were acquired last year by ex-Wadworth executive Rupert Bagnall’s […]
Tech billionaire Larry Ellison has stepped in to revive the Eagle and Child, the Oxford pub famous as the preferred watering-hole of J.R.R. Tolkein, creator of The Lord of the Rings. The 17th-century pub has been closed since the Covid shutdown of 2020, and was reportedly being lined up for conversion into a hotel until […]
