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Last updated: January 9th 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We're currently re-checking details for this pub, so a few details may be slightly out of date at present.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
  • Bus stop nearby (see public transport tab for route details)
  • Railway station within about a mile (see the public transport tab for details)

opened 1544

Coddenham Rd, IP6 8AU

grid reference: TM 090 548

previously known as: Chequers, Cross House, Kings Arms, Ram, White Horse, Fleece

listed building grade: II

tel: 01449 721587

Also listed at Station Yard.

A timber framed building with an old beamed bar which has been a pub (on and off) since 1544.

Before the railway station was built all the land between the pub and river was known as "camping land" - this was the pitch for the popular ball game Campball - a precursor to football dating back to at least 17th cent. Campball was described as a "friendly kind of fight" - a bloody and murderous practice with no restrictions on numbers of players and few rules. It generally degenerated into a brawl. Today local football is still played on part of the former camping land.


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Local licensing authority for Needham Market is Mid Suffolk

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