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Last updated: June 10th 2010

Overview

pub is on the regional inventory
  • Beer served through handpulls
  • Lunchtime meals (not just snacks)
  • Evening meals
  • Restaurant or separate dining area
  • Traditional separate public bar
  • Pub has its own car park
  • Real coal or log fire
  • Dogs are welcome
  • Children are welcome
  • Beer garden or other outside drinking area
  • Accommodation available
  • Pub is accessible to disabled customers
  • Bus stop nearby (see public transport tab for route details)
  • Railway station within about 5 miles (see the public transport tab for details)
  • Quiet pub - no electronic games, piped music or jukebox

hotel

opened: 1450

owner: Greene King

address: Hall St, CO10 9JG

grid reference: TL 864 458

listed building grade: II*

tel: 01787 378494

website: http://www.thebull-hotel.com/

regular real ales: Greene King IPA + Abbot plus guest beer

Imposing 15th cent. 3* hotel with 25 rooms and used as an inn since at least 1580. The comfortable bar and lounge to rear of building (accessed from main entrance) overlook a coutyard and also welcomes non residents. It previously featured in TV's Lovejoy.

The hotel was extensively and sympathetically refurbished in 2003.

Food available 12-2.30 + 6.30-9.30

In 1648 the innkeeper, Richard Everard was killed in a brawl in the entrance hall. His body was said to have vanished before the burial.


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Note

Name may be a sympathetic reference to a Papal bull - a lead seal attached to official religious edicts or documents - or a reference to Henry VIII who introduced a bulls head into his coat-of-arms after he defied a papal bull in 1538. Bull baiting was also quite widespread until it was banned in 1835.

Local licensing authority for Long Melford is Babergh

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