Peyton Arms

About the Peyton Arms

The Peyton Arms off the B4100, is close to Bicester and Banbury and the nearby Junction 10 on the M40.

Mick the Hat and his Jean wife are living their dream as the tenants of the Peyton Arms, Stoke Lyne in Oxfordshire. For this unspoilt little stone inn located in a peaceful rural setting is the pub that they had always wanted to run.

Role in the local community

The pub is an irreplaceable rural gem with two simply appointed bars and a more recent third room. It is a pub for conversations that eddy and swirl around the small main bar punctuated only by the laughter of customers.

The pub is listed in CAMRA National Inventory of pub interiors of outstanding historic interest as being one of fewer than 250 pubs left in Britain to have an interior of outstanding heritage, untouched by developers.

Pub puzzles Many metal puzzles hang from the ceiling or can be found on shelves and drinkers are challenged to see if they can complete such tasks as balance 12 nails on top of another nail.

Straight from the barrel

The pub has no hand pumps and all the Hook Norton draught real ales are poured directly from casks with drinkers served through a hatch in the wall.
It is the couple’s ambition to ensure the beer is of a high enough quality to be included in CAMRA’S Good Beer Guide.

Pets are welcome and it is not unusual for one local to walk two pygmy goats on leads to the pub to sit and enjoy the tranquillity of the garden.
The garden is somewhere that can be enjoyed by families and the many walkers that pass by.

Groups of walkers and runners are welcome to visit the pub – and nibbles can be provided for them if they contact the pub before arrival.
Recently 40 members of the Hash House Harriers – who describe themselves as a drinking club with a running problem – visited the pub.