Parking at Red Lion Hotel, BANBURY

The restaurant serves the best English and Continental cuisine, and the hotel offers facilities for small private functions and conferences. The Red Lion is an appropriately tawny colour to suit the noun, if not the adjective, in its name. A former coaching inn, it has old oak decoration and stone chimneys. It is most pleasantly situated overlooking the old village green. The bar has a list of the inn's landlords, dating back to before the Civil War, when it was a Royalist owned hostelry. The restaurant serves the best English and Continental food, fine wine and traditional ales. What's so special about us? The twelve comfortable en suite bedrooms all have modern facilities. The Red Lion can cater for small weddings and private functions of up to fifty people, or small conferences with up to ten delegates. The ideal tourist and busines centre, with easy access and safe parking. A magnificent coaching inn steeped in history, overlooking the village green in this most beautiful of Oxfordshire villages. Luxuriously appointed and sympatheically maintained in the finest traditional manner. with a wealth of old oak and stone chimney pieces of considerable interest to lovers of our english heritage. Long hidden features discovered during restoration indicate that this ancient Royalist owned hostelry dates from before the English Civil War. A list of landlords has been proudly retained since 1690 and is displayed in the bar where traditional ales and fine wines are served from our cool cellars. The Red Lion Restaurant serves traditional English and Continental country fare in a restaurant of character. The Restaurant is of withstanding quality on two distinct levels and capable of seperation if required. Seats 44 covers in total comfort. The Function Room is available for smaller occasions; seminars, board meetings or private and more intimate parties with seating of up to 18 depending on the requirements.