The Oxford Story in collaboration with the Marches Makers Festival
An exhibition of work inspired by the story of The Oxford Arms, contributed by local artists in collaboration with the Marches Makers!
Kington Walking Festival Weekend
Take the opportunity to pet some adorable fuzzy, furry, feathery friends, courtesy of Pentre Farm!
Plus! Food from pop up kitchen Trigg Food!
12-4pm
Cafe & bar open!
Kington Marmalade Competition
Festive Foods from the Borders introduces the inaugural Kington Marmalade Competition!
Live judging and results at the Barn, The Oxford Arms from 1.30pm
Prize giving at 2.30pm
Exciting prizes for best in class for homemade and commercial marmalades: you might even win free entry to the Dalemain World Marmalade Awards 2025!
Pick up an entry form today from Bees Knees Cookshop, Church St, or the Grapevine, High St.
email: info@beesknees.co.uk
or call: 07810443286
Kington Folk Club Presents Diego Brown and the Good Fairy
Live performance from Diego Brown and the Good Fairy - music from 1pm
Bar & Cafe open from 12pm
Free entry!
Food from ORIGIN PIZZA
Desert Island Discs
Featuring questioner Andrew Rickett and guest Martin Peek.
Trigg Foods providing hot food on the night!
Treasure Hunt
St. Patricks Day family fun treasure hunt!
All you need are your eyes and your thinking caps - Prize for the quickest to return!
Solve the clues to take you on a fascinating ‘treasure hunt’ around Kington. Collect your first clue from The Oxford Arms any time between 12-3pm. The clues are all within a short stroll of The Oxford Arms.
Children must be accompanied.
Press Gangers Shanty Band
A lot of Shanty, a bit of Irish!
Open 12-4pm, music starts at 1pm
FREE ENTRY - collection for RNLI Lifeboats
Hot food and drinks available, refreshments & bar
Food available from THE PIZZA BOX
Live Music in the Barn
Chipping Norton based singer songwriter Dave Oakley first trod the boards at the Zap Club in Brighton in 1986 and made his London debut at “God’s Little Joke”, an open mic in Clapham, followed by the Troubadour and the Mean Fiddler.
His thoughtful, we’’crafted songs cover all the usual topics of love, life, death, whiskey and Maureen O’Hara, but not necessarily in that order.
Jaqui and Richard come from the Bath and Bristol area and have played together in their band Fastest to Canada for many years and as a duo.
Together they produce a melodious sound which has been enjoyed at Kington Folk Club and at folk evenings in the town.
BAR OPEN & HOT FOOD SERVED FROM 6PM.
MUSIC FROM 7.30PM
SUGGESTED ENTRY DONATION £2.00
Domino Drive
A friendly tournament - all welcome, no experience necessary!
1.30 - 3pm
Cafe & Bar open 12-4pm
Hot food available
Sunday Sessions
Live music in the Barn!
1-4pm
Acoustic guitar & vocals with Peter Bradburn & Ralph Bradley
Bar & Cafe open
Hot food and drinks available
Window of Dreams How-To Session
You are invited to take part in Window Of Dreams - a community display!
Choose a visible window in your home
Design you image (simple is best!)
Decorate using sugar paper, tracing paper and coloured tissue paper
Lights ON! Let everyone enjoy your stained glass window
Live Music
A collective mix of old time skiffle through the years!
LIV42DAY covering Johnny Cash & Bob Dylan, and more modern music from Stacey & Janice.
bar & cafe open - hot food and drinks available
John Jones Oysterband
Traditional carols & live instruments. Come join in for our last event of 2023!
Oxford Arms open Question and Answer event
If you are unable to drop in, email your thoughts to info@openarmskington.co.uk or chat to the team during opening hours.
Kington Churches Together festive sing-along
Bar open from 5pm, festive music from 5.30pm.
With food from Origin Pizza!
Christmas Crafts in the Barn!
Take a workshop in making decorative stars and star lanterns!
Friday 8th December 10am - 12.30pm or 1pm - 3.30pm
Saturday 9th December 10am - 12.30pm or 1pm - 3.30pm
£12 for one workshop / £20 for both.
All materials and festive refreshments provided. All proceeds to go to The Open Arms project.
The Oxford Arms as part of the Kington Winter Food Festival
With special guests Pentre Farms petting animals (12 - 2) & Whitton Voices.
Christmas decoration craft and children’s activities!
Food from Origin Pizza
Mulled wine & cider, minces pies and roast chestnuts!
National Tree Week
Celebrate National Tree Week at The Oxford Arms!
Plant nuts & seeds, dress/adorn a Cloothie (rag) tree, make leaf crowns and tree fairies and play “What’s that twig"?”
Hot food and drink available in the cafe and bar.
Live Gypsy Jazz
The Oxford Arms presents Jean-Louis and Terry playing live Gypsy Jazz in the Barn from 7.30pm.
Hot food served from 6pm. Goulash + veggie & vegan option
Free entry, limited seating - arrive early to avoid disappointment!
Herefordshire Autumn Feast
100% Herefordshire Autumn Feast
Big pumpkin cook-up with kids kitchen, mini talks and videos featuring Save The Wye, Pasture for Life & Herefordshire Meadows, and press your own apple juice!
We will also serve scones made with local flour & homemade jam, and sticky toffee apple cake with local apples.
Kington Fireworks Night at The Oxford Arms
Hot food and drinks to take away from 6pm.
Bar open til 10pm!
Local jacket potatoes with a choice of fillings, mulled wine & mulled berry juice, and bonfire night Parkin & cream.
The Big Draw - Drawing With the Senses - ‘Creative Cafes’
‘The Oxford Orchestra’ with Sarah Ricketts. Using household items we will make music & draw it with symbols & marks to create a graphic score. We will then play it - our very own Stomp band!
The Big Draw - Drawing With the Senses - ‘Creative Cafes’
‘Monoprinting with clay’ with local ceramicist Nancy Frost
‘A Brush with Nature’ with local artist Rebecca Finney
The Big Draw - Drawing With the Senses - ‘Creative Cafes’
‘ Bricks & Mortar’ / ‘Nooks & Crannies’ - Traces of The Oxford Story, creating a collaborative arts display
Wild Street Kitchen
Enjoy Wild Street Kitchen’s handmade pizzas from the comfort of our cozy barn!
Kington Walks Casserole Evening
Join us in the Courtyard & Barn for this yearly Kington staple - Kington Walks Casserole Evening. Fill up on delicious vegetarian or meat casserole, made by local caterers The Cider Barn. This evening does not disappoint
The Oxford Story Wall
The Oxford Story Wall - to depict the past, present & future with Yvie George, artist & archeologist
Yvie is here to dig out and draw up stories around The Oxford, and to record ‘live’ our shared Heritage in a captivating way!
If you have a story, great or small, or perhaps an object that connects you to The Oxford, do come & join in. If you simply want to hear a few stories then please come & enjoy the experience of watching a ‘talking wall’ grow...
Table Top Sale
A treasure hunters paradise! Come & browse the 2nd hand wares & find just what you were looking for. £5 per table (bring your own table) - booking available via the contact page. Unloading from 8am, all cars offsite by 9.30am