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The Osney Arms was situated on Botley Road. This pub closed in October 2011.

Source: Alan Lees

Review from tantallon.org.uk:

Greene King Abbot Ale £1.92 Twiglets 45p (17.vi.1998) It's pleasant enough, there's a choice of two ales on cask (IPA and Abbot if you like that sort of thing), the upholstery's fairly red, and out of the pubs along Botley Road, I'd say it was a toss-up between here and the Kite Inn on Mill Street, unless you're going for plain oddity, in which case Walter Mitty's is your best bet. The one feature that distinguishes it from the Kite Inn, other than the brewery, and that it's divided clearly into a lounge bar and a public bar, and that there's tassles hanging from the light above the pool table, is that the Gents is a magnificent Victorian room with porcelain tiles most the way up to the ceiling. It's like a cross between something out of St Pancras and a giant teatowel. It's exactly what Keble should be like on the inside. They do Twiglets. (17.vi.1998)

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