The Bull offers a warm welcome to all types of visitor - both local and those from further afield.

Its close proximity to Swindon, Cirencester, Cheltenham and Gloucester, makes it ideal not only for holiday visitors and fishermen, but to businessmen who wish to get away from the standard system-built model-type of accommodation, allowing all our guests to relax in surroundings which have the charm and warmth of an ancient Cotswold Inn.

Situated along one side of Fairford's famous market square, much of the building is dated around the 15th Century when it used to be a Monk's chanting house. During recent improvements a secret tunnel was discovered leading from the hotel to the 500-year-old St Mary's Church.

The first record of the building being used as a hotel is found in the Torrington diaries of 1745 which reveal that the Honourable John Byng a notoriously critical judge visited the Bull and awarded it the rare distinction of 'good.' By 1792 due to its situation of the great London to Gloucester turnpike road, the hotel was famous as a posting house with stables for 30 horses. The old stables are now used as the main restaurant.

The hotel is also thought to have been used as a 16th century hall for a merchant or trade guild.

The hotel has been running successfully since 1991 under the management of the Dudley Family.