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Last updated: February 23rd 2010

Overview

  • We're currently re-checking details for this pub, so a few details may be slightly out of date at present
  • Lunchtime meals (not just snacks)
  • Evening meals
  • Traditional separate public bar
  • Pub games
  • Pub has its own car park
  • 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 a mile (see the public transport tab for details)

hotel

opened 1955

99 High St, IP6 8DQ

grid reference: TM 087 551

previously known as: Bull, Boule House, Buggs bar

listed building grade: II*

tel: 01449 720305

website: http://elizabethhotels.co.uk/inn_NM.htm

Classic 15th cent. timber framed building which was being used as an inn by the early 16th cent. Family orientated with a lively bar. It was once a calling house for pilgrims on their way to Bury St Edmunds and was previouly called the Bull Inn and is believed to have once been named Boule House.

Name may have derived from John Bull who owned pub in 1566 or from monastic seals i.e. a reference to a lead seal attached to a papal edict. Alternatively, bull baiting was also a popular local sport and may have been practised nearby at that time.

NB: Bull closed in 1784. Pub reopened in 1955.


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