Welcome to the Rose & Crown website

The Rose & Crown in Charlbury is a traditional pub with the emphasis on real ale - along with traditional cider and perry, quality Belgian beer, good value red and white wines, and old English fruit wines.

This popular and friendly ‘wet-sales-only’ pub has been voted Pub of the Year by North Oxfordshire CAMRA on four occasions (winning every year in the last eight years when it was not excluded from the competition due to its previous successes). With up to seven real ales on offer, a choice of traditional cider and perry, and a selection of quality foreign beers on draught - the Rose & Crown can justifiably claim to have the best selection of real ale and other quality traditional drinks in the area.

The pub turns over its real ales very quickly, and serves on average around 40 different guest beers per month. Ramsbury Bitter is the only regular real ale - the other six handpumps offer an ever-changing selection of ales - mostly from microbreweries - with products from all four corners of the UK.

This true community pub has been listed in CAMRA’s Good Beer Guide for over 20 consecutive years and it’s a place where local residents and visitors from all walks of life come to chat, debate or unwind in a convivial and lively environment. It’s also a place where local clubs, societies and other groups come to relax after switching off from their formal duties.

Top quality live music is very popular in the Rose & Crown, and artists from North America, Europe and from all over the UK play in the lively, appreciative, yet intimate atmosphere of the main bar and many of the musicians consider the Rose & Crown to be among their favourite pub venues. Live music takes place usually ever fortnight (check the Live Music page for the latest gig list), and the music is always free on the night - just turn up, buy a drink and enjoy the music.

The pub organises a beer festival each year - usually at the end of January - at which a much larger than usual selection real ales will be on sale. Watch this space for details of the next event.

There are two distinct drinking areas in the Rose & Crown with the main bar area and the quieter 'back room', where there is a pool table and a large flat-screen TV. There is also a pleasant outside patio area for warmer evenings and for smoking.