The Jersey Arms, Middleton Stoney, Bicester

Official site of The Jersey Arms - www.jerseyarms.com

A former coaching inn now under the Best Western umbrella. It has a functioning bar, which is located to the right through a door marked 'Hotel Entrance'. The bar had two pump handles but no real ale - a sign pointed out that due to lack of demand and the fact it only keeps "3 to 4 days" they had decided to stop selling it - fair enough if there's not the demand. This left the keg options of Guinness and Flowers Bitter - the latter which came in at £3.75 and was served up super-chilled (yuk). What was presumably the courtyard is now a conglomeration of inter-connected outbuildings and a small, L-shaped grassed area with a handful of white-painted metal tables and chairs, acting as a beer garden.