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The General Elliot was situated on Manor Road, South Hinksey. This pub closed in 2009.
Now reopened.
Frances Gardner (December 2014).
Closed again, c2016. Planning application in for change to residential use.
T C (December 2018)
Review from tantallon.org.uk:
Duncan Parkes writes: There was a recent attempt to get things together and reopen it, but that's currently fallen through. We live in hope. (2012-10-28) Pont Lurcock writes: Has changed hands yet again, and I haven't been in yet to see the effects. Now seems to be in the hands of New Wood Inns, which---judging by their handling of the Gardener's Arms---is probably a good thing. (2005-04) This place changed hands again in the summer of 2003, and seems none the worse for it. There is still Aunt Sally and there are still barbecues. There is also a bouncy castle in the summer, which can make things rather loud on a sunny weekend. Inside, there are two smallish rooms and an alcove containing a pool table. There is music, but at a bearable volume. There is a television, but it is small and easy to ignore. The beer has been in good shape on both my recent visits, and the Morlands is pleasant for the sake of variety, if unremarkable in itself. Fringe benefits: dartboard; two trophy cabinets, one containing pleasant carved wooden artefacts, the other trophies; a pot-plant in the gents. The decor is typically pubbish (framed Cadbury's adverts) without straying into tat (no ornamental horse-brasses). The atmosphere is relaxed and the staff are friendly. I ought also to mention the things I found stacked against the wall: they were felt-covered boards the size of the table-tops. Some of them were inset with brazen cribbage boards. For this reason alone, I would go there again. (4.x.2003) Colin Batchelor Writes: Home of the Oxford & District Sea Angling Club, there's generally a big board with a list of sea fishing records on the wall, and two pitches for Aunt Sally in the garden out the front. In winter, it's difficult to see the garden because of the floodlight illuminating the car park and washing that end of town in a lurid amber. You can see this floodlight from Hinksey Park. They have barbecues in the garden on Sunday lunchtimes in summer. The management has changed at least twice in the exactly one year since I was here last, so the animals have gone. They used to be like this: Three cats - Domino, the largest and black and white one, Murphy, who's smaller, grey, and with a coat worthy of Michael Heseltine, and Pepsi, who's tiny and I haven't seen yet. There is also a border collie-type dog of monumental stupidity. However the surly buggers behind the bar that Owen complained about at Christmas have gone, which is good. Unfortunately, the mediocre poem written by Robert Graves about the General has been replaced by a big mirror. In fact, there has been a fair amount of subtle renovation so that the pub looks much the same but doesn't have quite the same shabby air to it, which is a shame. The fruit machine has been updated so that it takes new ten pence pieces since autumn 1997. I suppose the greatest attraction from the point of view of a resident of Oxford is the scenic walk over Jacob's Ladder and the Devil's Backbone to get to the village. A surprisingly worthwhile pub. Yes. (30.v.1999)
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Date of photo: 2014	Picture source: Movement80