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The Crown, Didcot

High Street
South Moreton
Postal town: Didcot
OX11 9AG

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Blue Scrumpy left this review about The Crown

The Crown wasn't a pub I was originally intending to visit, but I added it after finding the King Alfred's Head in Wantage closed, we ventured here to make it just before its 5pm closing time on a Sunday. The pub is now community run.

There is a large single room with a wood burner near the centre giving off a significant amount of heat. Walls are painted grey, making it a little non-descript. Although, there are a few items on the walls to occupy you. Dogs are welcome and their are treats for them at the bar.

3 cask ales were on - the house beer is Amwell Springs Ye Old Dash & Tipple. Loose Cannon Abingdon Bridge is also a regular beer. The guest for our visit was Hook Norton Hooky. We also spotted Winkleigh Sam's Dry & Medium ciders in boxes behind the bar.

I tried the house beer. It wasn't really to my taste, but the pub gets listed in the current Good Beer Guide. CAMRA do like a community pub. The owners are certainly making a decent fist of this though.

On 2nd March 2025 - rating: 6
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Quinno _ left this review about The Crown

Set back from the road, this is recent a community rescue pub (April 2019). It’s had a clean-up inside though it’s a rather bland Farrow & Ball by numbers interior with a central fireplace as the only real bit of eye catching note; I hope there are plans for more homeliness. Three pumps all on; sadly a mixed bag of Pride (tasted old, NBSS 2), Loose Cannon Longest Day (flat and taken off at my behest) and Cotswold Jumping Jack Flash (NBSS 3). Packed out for a quiz night, so the locals are doing their bit, now the staff and cellar team must do theirs. Good luck to them but there is a bit of a journey to come.

On 1st July 2019 - rating: 6
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Komakino . left this review about The Crown

The Crown became the ninth such community-owned pub to open in Oxfordshire in the April of 2019. Our visit coincided with their first week of trading, so a few things hadn't yet been finished off - food is to follow as well as tables and chairs(!) - a merry gaggle of various seating was commandeered by happy locals on our Sunday arvo visit. It looks like they've cleared away a lot of the foliage from outside the pub (compare my two photos) and the interior owes a lot to Farrow & Ball paint schemes, but fair play to anyone who has had a hand in resurrecting a lost cause. Two ales - Fuller's London Pride and Oxbrew 'Community Endeavour' Session IPA with a third unclipped. Service with a smile as you'd expect and give them a couple of months to bed in before passing judgement. A slightly above average mark on this showing for the fact that it's yet another Oxfordshire turnaround.

On 29th April 2019 - rating: 6
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hondo . left this review about The Crown

A renovation of the Crown in South Moreton will now begin after villagers bought the pub.

On 10th October 2018 - no rating submitted
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