Report · Oxford cafes and bars · scanned 2026-10-24

The Plough

theploughoxford.co.uk is partly visible to agents.

Listed by OpenStreetMap.

Ways to reach The Plough directly, with no marketplace in between. Checked 2026-10-24. On the business's own site. Report a mistake

Hours, from OpenStreetMap: Mon–Tue closed · Wed–Fri 11:30–15:00, 17:45–23:30 · Sat 11:30–23:30 · Sun 12:00–21:00

The Green, Upper Wolvercote OX2 8BD Oxford · +44 1865 556969

Its menu mentions: a children's menu

Nearby, also direct

Places near The Plough that take a booking or an order on their own website, with no marketplace in between.

Leo’s Bar470 m · british
The Wolvercote Inn760 m
The Trout Inn1.2 km
Starbucks1.2 km · coffee shop
Colombia Coffee Roasters1.3 km · coffee shop

Owners

The website's grade

Some AI assistants are turned away by The Plough's website. It can read what The Plough offers. It finds a way to book or order directly on the site.

C45 of 65 · partly visible to agentsThe Direct Index · 2026-10-24

68.8%

44.7 of 65 points available

1/5

agent-readiness level, Basic Web Presence

things to fix

Provisional, with the action test and the assistant citation check still to come. The hatched part of the bar isn't measured yet.

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Assistants

What assistants answer

Each assistant gets three questions about this business: the official website, where to book and where to order. Each cell shows where the answer sent people.

The assistants haven't been asked about this business yet. They're asked about the top-ranked businesses in each city index, and about any business as soon as it's claimed. Claim this page to be included.

The assistants were asked 12 everyday questions about Oxford cafes and bars and named 47 places. The Plough wasn't one of them. See who was named →

Where it stands

How The Plough compares

Where it stands

65 of 174 in Oxford cafes and bars

Top 37% of the sites scanned in this index. Just above: Viny's Cafe C, Sofi De France C. Just below: Ashmolean Cafe C, Greens Cafe C.

What the top 10% of the index does	Top 10%	This site
Take bookings or orders on their own domain	100%	yes
Publish the menu or price list as HTML	89%	yes
Let AI crawlers in (no block at the server or in robots.txt)	100%	no
Structured data with address, phone and hours	72%	no
Have an llms.txt	50%	no

The top 10% are the 18 highest-scoring reachable sites in the index at the last update.

Nearest places in the index

Place	Distance	Grade	Direct booking or ordering
Leo’s Bar british	469 m	C	yes
Wild Bean Cafe coffee_shop	577 m	F	no
The Mill Cafe community_centre	760 m	C	no
The Wolvercote Inn	760 m	A	yes
The Meet Point Coffee coffee_shop	1.2 km	F	no
The Trout Inn	1.2 km	A	yes
Starbucks coffee_shop	1.2 km	D	yes
Colombia Coffee Roasters coffee_shop	1.3 km	C	yes
Crepeaffaire crepe	1.3 km	A	yes
Taylor's sandwich	1.4 km	F	no

Businesses like yours

Businesses like The Plough in Oxford cafes and bars

Group	Sites	Avg score	A or B	This site
Businesses of the same kind in Oxford cafes and bars	174	58%	34%	68.8%

The best of the businesses of the same kind in Oxford cafes and bars

Belota Cafe A 95.4% · King's Arms A 95.4% · The Bear A 95.4% · The Gardeners Arms A 95.4% · The Head of the River A 95.4%

After the top fixes

With the two fixes above (No structured data for the business; The server turns AI crawlers away at the door), the score would be about 95.4%, which would be first of 174 in Oxford cafes and bars.

Peers are the businesses in the same index that have a reachable site, using the latest scan of each. The rank comes from the index's current ranking.

Findings

What to fix first

No structured data for the business +14 points
Add schema.org JSON-LD for the business (CafeOrCoffeeShop, BarOrPub or the closest type, with name, address, telephone and openingHoursSpecification, plus servesCuisine). Every assistant reads this block first, and the fix kit below has it filled in. How to fix it
The server turns AI crawlers away at the door +3.3 points
Requests as GPTBot (http_429) were refused, but a normal browser got the page. That's usually a bot list at the host or in a firewall that the owner never chose. Ask the host to allow these user agents. How to fix it
No llms.txt no points, but worth doing
Optional for now and cheap to add. It's a short text file that describes the business for language models. How to fix it

Send the fixes to your web person

No one is listed yet to fix this in Oxford cafes and bars. List your agency or yourself. It's free, and every listing is reviewed by hand.

Already right

robots.txt lets AI crawlers in No rule blocks the main AI user agents.
Menu or price list is an HTML page Agents can read the items and prices.
Booking on your own site Agents can book without going through a marketplace.
Ordering on your own site Agents can order without going through a marketplace.

Builder: unknown · contact page /about: nothing new; menu page /summer-menu: ordering link (own domain); booking page /contact: nothing new

Fix kit

What to paste

Filled in from the business's own record and this scan. Check every line before it goes live. The guides show where it goes on your builder.

Show the code to paste

Structured data (JSON-LD)

Paste it as one block in the page's head, or in the builder's custom code box. Change anything that's wrong. Guide.

<script type="application/ld+json">
{
  "@context": "https://schema.org",
  "@type": "BarOrPub",
  "name": "The Plough",
  "url": "https://www.theploughoxford.co.uk/",
  "telephone": "+44 1865 556969",
  "address": {
    "@type": "PostalAddress",
    "streetAddress": "The Green, Upper Wolvercote",
    "postalCode": "OX2 8BD",
    "addressLocality": "Oxford"
  },
  "geo": {
    "@type": "GeoCoordinates",
    "latitude": 51.7835029,
    "longitude": -1.2824834
  },
  "openingHours": "We-Fr 11:30-15:00,17:45-23:30; Sa 11:30-23:30; Su 12:00-21:00",
  "openingHoursSpecification": [
    {
      "@type": "OpeningHoursSpecification",
      "dayOfWeek": [
        "Wednesday",
        "Thursday",
        "Friday"
      ],
      "opens": "11:30",
      "closes": "15:00"
    },
    {
      "@type": "OpeningHoursSpecification",
      "dayOfWeek": [
        "Wednesday",
        "Thursday",
        "Friday"
      ],
      "opens": "17:45",
      "closes": "23:30"
    },
    {
      "@type": "OpeningHoursSpecification",
      "dayOfWeek": [
        "Saturday"
      ],
      "opens": "11:30",
      "closes": "23:30"
    },
    {
      "@type": "OpeningHoursSpecification",
      "dayOfWeek": [
        "Sunday"
      ],
      "opens": "12:00",
      "closes": "21:00"
    }
  ],
  "acceptsReservations": "https://www.theploughoxford.co.uk/contact",
  "hasMenu": "https://www.theploughoxford.co.uk/summer-menu",
  "potentialAction": [
    {
      "@type": "ReserveAction",
      "target": {
        "@type": "EntryPoint",
        "urlTemplate": "https://www.theploughoxford.co.uk/contact",
        "actionPlatform": [
          "http://schema.org/DesktopWebPlatform",
          "http://schema.org/MobileWebPlatform"
        ]
      },
      "result": {
        "@type": "Reservation",
        "name": "Reservation"
      }
    },
    {
      "@type": "OrderAction",
      "target": {
        "@type": "EntryPoint",
        "urlTemplate": "https://www.theploughoxford.co.uk/images/menus/summer-pre-order-menu-2026.pdf",
        "actionPlatform": [
          "http://schema.org/DesktopWebPlatform",
          "http://schema.org/MobileWebPlatform"
        ]
      }
    }
  ]
}
</script>

llms.txt

Save as /llms.txt at the root of the site. Guide.

# The Plough

> bar or pub in The Green, Upper Wolvercote OX2 8BD Oxford, Oxford cafes and bars. Phone +44 1865 556969.

## Book or order directly

- Book: https://www.theploughoxford.co.uk/contact (on the business's own site)
- Order: https://www.theploughoxford.co.uk/images/menus/summer-pre-order-menu-2026.pdf (on the business's own site)
- Menu: https://www.theploughoxford.co.uk/summer-menu

## Opening hours

We-Fr 11:30-15:00,17:45-23:30; Sa 11:30-23:30; Su 12:00-21:00

## About

- Website: https://www.theploughoxford.co.uk/
- This file follows llms.txt (https://llmstxt.org): a short plain-text description for language models.

Owners

Own this business?

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For developers and agents

What agents get, and what the site publishes

The direct record agents get for this business, the rails an agent could transact through, and the agent standards the site publishes.

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The direct record

What agents get for The Plough

The links an assistant is sent when it books, orders or reads the menu for this business, where each leads, and when a browser last checked it. The same record is served as JSON at /api/direct/theploughoxford.co.uk, through the MCP tool direct_record and in the city feed /city/oxford-cafes-bars/direct.json.

Path	Link	Status
Book	www.theploughoxford.co.uk/contact own site	found by the scan of 2026-10-24, not yet tested
Order	www.theploughoxford.co.uk/images/menus/summer-pre-order-menu own site	found by the scan of 2026-10-24, not yet tested
Menu	www.theploughoxford.co.uk/summer-menu html_page	from the scan
Hours	We-Fr 11:30-15:00,17:45-23:30; Sa 11:30-23:30; Su 12:00-21:00 (closed now)	from OpenStreetMap
Phone	+44 1865 556969

Stable links that count: /go/theploughoxford.co.uk/book, /go/theploughoxford.co.uk/order, /go/theploughoxford.co.uk/menu answer 302 to the links above; the count is the line "followed N direct links" on this page.

Owners: claim the business below to correct this record; the claim email carries the link.

Transactable

Can an agent transact?

Measured, not scored: the Agent-Direct Score stays at specification v1.0. This says which rails an agent could transact through today, and what the booking or ordering vendor's terms allow.

UCP profile /.well-known/ucp, Google and Shopify's Universal Commerce Protocol	no
ACP discovery document /.well-known/acp.json, OpenAI and Stripe's Agentic Commerce Protocol	no
MCP server card /.well-known/mcp/server-card.json	no
Ordering vendor that takes agent orders Square, Toast, or a vendor whose terms allow agents	no

Found one hop past the home page: menu page /summer-menu: ordering link (own domain).

Agent readiness

Level 1 of 5, Basic Web Presence

These are the standards an agent looks for before it reads a page, checked the same way as Cloudflare's Agent Readiness scan. They don't count toward the score. Each missing item links to a how-to. Cloudflare's report.

Link headers on the homepage	no how
sitemap.xml	yes
AI bot rules in robots.txt	yes
Content Signals in robots.txt	no how
Markdown on Accept: text/markdown	no how
llms.txt	no how
API catalog (RFC 9727)	no how
MCP server card	no how
A2A agent card	no how
Agent Skills index	no how
OAuth or OIDC discovery	no how
OAuth protected resource metadata	no how
auth.md	no how
Web Bot Auth key directory	no how
ARD capability manifest	no how
DNS-AID records	no how
WebMCP tools on the page	no how
JSON-LD for the business	no