The Catherine Wheel

Free House · Food & Rooms · Marshfield

A historic coaching inn, eight miles from Bath

Freshly prepared food, real ales and three comfortable rooms, behind a stone frontage built in 1680.

1680

The facade and front rooms are added to a house already many years old.

By 1740

It’s a working coaching inn, known in those days as The Star.

1780s

The Star takes the name it still carries: The Catherine Wheel.

The hanging inn sign reading Free House, The Catherine Wheel, Food and Rooms, beside a basket of flowers
Welcome

People have been stopping here for nearly 300 years

Marshfield sits at the southern gateway to the Cotswolds, close to where Gloucestershire, Wiltshire and Somerset meet. It’s an easy drive from Bath and Bristol, and it feels a long way from both.

Come for a long Sunday lunch, a pint after a walk or a night in one of our rooms. Our kitchen cooks everything to order, using local produce as much as possible. And yes, your dog is welcome too.

Eat, stay, gather

A table laid with wine, glasses, name cards and fresh flowers

Eat

Wheel classics, weekly specials and Sunday roasts, with British meat and local vegetables and game.

A double bed with a patterned headboard panel and a decorative cushion in Room 1

Stay

Three en-suite bed and breakfast rooms on the High Street, with breakfast included and well-behaved dogs welcome.

A long table with red chairs in the stone-walled private dining room

Gather

A characterful private room for groups of 14 or more, for celebrations, meetings and everything in between.

Every Sunday, 12 noon to 7pm

The Sunday roast worth the drive

Beef, pork belly, chicken supreme, lamb shoulder or vegan meatloaf, with roast potatoes, Yorkshire pudding, roasted carrots, seasonal greens and gravy.

Roasts from £19.75, and children’s roasts at £12.50. It’s best to book ahead.

A dining room table set with wine glasses and red flowers beside a sash window
Room 3 made up as a twin, with two beds beneath a tall window
Stay the night

Three rooms, and breakfast in the morning

Two doubles, one of which can be a twin, and a triple. Each has an en-suite shower room, TV and tea and coffee.

Double occupancy is £120 a night including breakfast, with 10% off stays of three nights or more. It’s a good base for Bath, Castle Combe, Lacock, Westonbirt and Badminton.

What's on

There's usually something going on

A brass band playing at night outside the inn, beneath the inn sign

Music night

The Pipley Bottom Boys play on the last Thursday of every month.

The Marshfield Mummers in costumes of paper streamers, led along the High Street by a man in a top hat and long coat

Marshfield Mummers

On Boxing Day the world-famous Mummers perform up the High Street and finish right outside our door.

A large mirror framed with fairy lights and festive greenery

Festive menu

Three courses for £34, from 1 December to 3 January (not Christmas Day or Boxing Day).

“The pub is beautifully presented, the food is great and the people are very friendly.”
Guest review, stay of July 2025
Find us

On the High Street in Marshfield

The Catherine Wheel, The High Street, Marshfield, SN14 8LR. We’re eight miles from Bath and 13 miles from Bristol, with good links to the M4 and M5.

Open

  • Monday 5pm to 11pm
  • Tuesday to Sunday 12 noon to 11pm

Food served

  • Monday 6:30pm to 8:30pm
  • Tuesday to Thursday 12 to 2pm, 6:30 to 8:30pm
  • Friday 12 to 2pm, 6:30 to 9pm
  • Saturday 12 to 3pm, 6:30 to 9pm
  • Sunday 12 noon to 7pm