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Picture source: Hania Franek

The Plough was situated on Abingdon Road. This grade-II listed pub was present by 1854 and is now used as a bed and breakfast establishment.

Source: Steve Turner

Review from tantallon.org.uk:

Courage Websters Bitter £1.70 Courage Directors £1.70 Courage Best £2.00 Cider £2.00 Coffee £1.25 Tea £1.25 Entering Clifton Hampden on the A415, we thought initially that this building, being white with a thatched roof, was the Barley Mow, but the large plough outside set us right on this. Other than the upstairs dining room, this is a very small pub, about the size of the Carpenters Arms in Jericho or the King and Queen in Wheatley. Pleasant, warm, fires at both ends (only one of them lit), and a good deal less family-restauranty than the Barley Mow across the bridge. Two miles along from the worst pub coffee (Berinsfield Arms), we find here the best pub coffee I've found --- it's served to you in a three-cup cafetiere, with a mint (as is the tea), and is better than the similarly expensive stuff at the Kings Arms Hotel in Horton-cum-Studley. (14.iii.1998)

Listed building details:

Public house. C17 with late C18 additions to rear. Large timber framing with painted brick infill to ground floor; render above, probably on timber framing; thatch roof; brick ridge stack to centre. Single storey and attic; 2-window range. 2 plank doors to right under C20 timber framed porch. 4-light casement to right of centre, 12-pane window to left. Swept dormer to right. Late C18 addition to rear left. Painted brick; thatch roof. Single storey and attic, at different level. Tripartite unhorned sash with glazing bars and segmental brick head, having keystone. Gabled dormer. Chamfered spine beam to ground floor centre.

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