Live Music — Pubs in Abingdon
Discover live music pubs in Abingdon. Browse our directory to find the perfect pub.
Found 15 live music pubs in Abingdon
Pablo Lounge
1-3 Bury Street, Abingdon OX14 3QY
Open-plan, former shop unit at Market Place end of shopping precinct. Bright and airey with lots of pictures on the walls. Promotes gluten-free and vegan menus as well as usual. Coffee, cocktails, wine, and beer on tap and in bottles.
Croft Bar
Lindsay Drive, Abingdon OX14 2RT
Previously a social club and part of the community centre so not very pretty but this is reflected in the drink prices. Now open to the public. Has a small bar area and a bigger room with tables, pool, darts, and a large TV. Also large garden with plenty to play on.
Abingdon United Football Club
Northcourt Road, Abingdon OX14 1PL
Football club bar. Real ale occasionally available.
Tipsy Mercer
22 High Street, Abingdon OX14 5AX
The Tipsy Mercer is a family run, fully independent, freehouse bar located in the heart of Abingdon, offering beer from keg, cocktails, and fine wines. Still being set up. Food (cheese and meats) and real ale coming soon apparently.
Crown & Thistle
18 Bridge Street, Abingdon OX14 3HS
Over 400 years old and once a coaching inn, there is a wonderful cobbled courtyard drinking area, complete with a cannon. The whole complex was renovated and refurbished at a cost of over £1.8m in autumn 2013 after being acquired by Oakman Inns. There are separate buildings for the bar & function room and the restaurant. The bar has been extended to include the barn which can be closed off for private functions. The bar features comfortable leather seating offering a range of wines and cocktails as well as the real ales. There are a total of seven hand pumps comprising 3 at the main bar, 2 in the function room and 2 in the restaurant serving well kept ales from Wychwood, Brakspear, Loose Cannon, Jennings, Ringwood, Loddon and others. Opens early for breakfast and food served all day including bar snacks.
Grapes
28 High Street, Abingdon OX14 5AX
Now a free house after an uncertain future under Greene King's tenure. Run as a true local with a number of TV's showing sports channels and 2 real ales although second beer not always on. There is patio beer garden to the rear with a 'horsebox' bar.
Midget
Preston Road, Abingdon OX14 5NR
A Greene King, award-winning, single-storey, estate pub, to the south of the town centre, offering many drinks and meal deals and promotions throughout the week. The sports on tv is popular, and includes Sky 3D and HD. Opened in 1974 by Lord Stokes, then head of British Leyland Motor Corporation, for Morland who held a competition to name it. The MG works still thrived in the town and the winning name was 'The Magic Midget' after a number of record-breaking 750cc MG cars of the 1930s. In supercharged form as EX120 it became the first 750cc car to exceed 100 mph in February 1931. A major refurbishment in 2002 changed the pub to an open-plan layout and the name proved too racy for Greene King who shortened it to 'The Midget' after a 2 seater sports car produced by MG between 1961 and 1980.
Nag's Head on the Thames
The Bridge, Abingdon OX14 3HX
Set on an island in the Thames, this Grade II-listed pub is split over two levels with a large garden area next to the river and lovely views of the countryside and the town's historic buildings. Now owned by the Brakspear pubco, it offers a good choice of beers, often local. Live music plays at weekends and some weekdays. A three-time local CAMRA branch Town and Village Pub of the Year.
Old Anchor
1 St Helen's Wharf, Abingdon OX14 5EN
This fine old pub has an enviable riverside location without being quite on the river. The original Old Anchor was over the road on a site on the river that it shared with an almshouse. Three houses on the present site were remodelled to create the new inn with new almshouses next to it when St Helen's Wharf was redeveloped in 1884. There are several small rooms and a courtyard garden. Refurbished for reopening May 2021 and under new management again. No draught beer at the moment.
Punchbowl
6 Market Place, Abingdon OX14 3HG
Traditional town pub with two rooms - a fairly basic front bar accessed off the Market Place, and a superb panelled snug possibly C18, with wood panelling, low beams and fixed bench seating, accessed down a passageway off East St Helen Street and linked to the bar through a serving hatch. First recorded as an inn in 1775 and has had various names. On CAMRA's Regional Inventory of Historic Pub Interiors. Has increasingly rare etched glass windows with the insignia of Morlands 'United Breweries'.
White Horse
189 Ock Street, Abingdon OX14 5DW
Originally owned by the Borough of Abingdon the White Horse dates back to 1845 when the tenant George Turb was a local merchant and beer retailer. Ten years later it was purchased by a local brewer named John Beesley before the Morland family ownership. In 1999 Greene King became the new owners and more recently extended this Grade II-listed building to provide dining facilities within this very traditional English pub. The pub has a beer garden in front and its own car park. Under new management from October 2017 but still has a good range of beers.
Black Swan
17 Bath Street, Abingdon OX14 3QH
Street corner sports bar in the town centre now with no real ale. Earliest recorded date of 1854 and much modernised. Regularly under new management.
Brewery Tap
40-42 Ock Street, Abingdon OX14 5BZ
Morland created a tap for its brewery in 1993 from three Grade II-listed town houses. The brewery is no more but the pub, run by the same family since it opened, has thrived. It offers a diverse range of beers, all sourced locally, and hosts two or three beer festivals each year featuring ales from further afield. The pub has three rooms, two of them away from the bar, and a courtyard outside. Local CAMRA Town and Village Pub of the Year 2019 and 2020.
Broad Face
30-32 Bridge Street, Abingdon OX14 3HR
Deceptively large two-roomed pub near the river with a small outside seating area on Thames Street. The name is first recorded in 1734 but there was a pub here before that possibly under a different name. Described on a lease of 1840 as 'newly erected'. Nicely done out inside and bright and welcoming. The traditional stories behind the pub's unique name have been written on the outside wall but any connection with the Old Gaol opposite (built 1805-1810, now apartments) is unlikely and omits the most likely explanation; that it was previously called the Saracen's Head and the sign was over painted. Good choice of ales.
College Oak
Peachcroft Road, Abingdon OX14 2SB
Busy, popular and welcoming pub on the Peachcroft estate, recently refurbished, that offers good value beer and food. During rugby matches a loyalty card scheme allows customers to get even cheaper beer! There is an actual oak tree by the lake in nearby Radley College reckoned to be anything from 400 to 900 plus years old but too rotten to date properly.