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Wangford is part of the Wangford with Henham parish.
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Wangford Sawyers Arms (Barking Dicky)
South West, 52.3563,1.62311
closed 4th February 1957
opened pre-1844
Norfolk Rd
grid reference TM 468 793
The Sawyers Arms was known locally as the Barking Dicky, because of a landlord who kept a donkey, which brayed continuously. (Dicky is a Suffolk dialect word for a Donkey). It closed in 1957, when the license was transferred to the Plough.
The building has a chequered history; at one time, so a neighbour tells us, it was even a chapel (presumably not at the same time it was a pub).
Gallery
Angel Inn 0.13 mile
Plough 0.49 mile
Randolph 2.2 miles
Five Bells 2.5 miles
White Hart 2.6 miles
Horse & Groom 2.7 milesHistorical interest
Died on 29 May 1885, at Wangford; Mary Ann, wife of Thomas Smith, for many years landlady of the Sawyers Arms, aged 83. Ipswich Journal, June 1885**
Landlords
(Most pub, location & historic details collated by Nigel, Tony or Keith - original sources are credited)
(** historic newspaper information from Stuart Ansell)
