TWO pubs in the same village have been placed in the national Budweiser Budvar Top 50 Gastropub Awards.

The Kingham Plough gastro pub run by TV chef Emily Watkins and her husband Miles Lampson can add another furrow to its long list of accolades after coming 15th in the list.

The couple say they try to achieve a balance between a ‘proper’ pub and an exceptional dining room. Since taking over in 2007, chef proprietor Miss Watkins has won the BBC's Great British Menu, Cotswold Food Hero of the Year in the Cotswold Life Food and Drink Awards, Oxfordshire Dining Pub of the Year in the Good Pub Guide 2015 as well as being listed in The Times' 25 Best Country Pubs for Food.

"To be featured in the top 50 gastropubs is a huge achievement. We are all so thrilled. And being number 15 too. Wow. The news has come while we are refurbishing the kitchen which has given us even more drive for when we reopen. The whole team is really excited.”

As well as a kitchen refurbishment, the pub is updating two of its bedrooms and is due to reopen on March 9.

Also in the Budweiser Budvar Top 50 Gastropub Awards list is the Wild Rabbit, in Kingham, which comes in at 49th in the country.

Owned by Lady Carole Bamford, who began the Daylesford Organic farm shop, the pub reopened in 2013 after a complete revamp and a new name having previously been known as The Tollgate Inn. It was announced Pub of the Year in the 2015 edition of the Michelin Eating Out in Pubs Guide. It also boasts three AA rosettes placing it in the top 10 per cent of the 2015 guide.

The Michelin guide describes the pub as a "chocolate box delight" with "first rate food".