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Introduction

We're indebted to Tony Pringle, whose Newmarket Pubs History website provides a wonderfully comprehensive survey of the town's pubs through the centuries.

Bronze Age barrows were cleared from the Heath in the 19th century but survive as parch marks in the landscape. The massive Anglo-Saxon earthwork - called the Devil's Dyke" - testifies that the virtual enclave of the area was occupied from ancient times.

One native of Newmarket who should be better known was mathematician Bill Tutte (1917-2002). Tutte was responsible for working out (without ever seeing the encryption machine) the method for breaking the Nazis' Lorenz cypher, which was used by Hitler to communicate with his high-level commanders. It's claimed (with good reason) that Tutte's work at Bletchley Park shortened the war at least two years, saving tens of millions of lives. A memorial to him stands adjacent to the Rutland Arms on the High Street.

An Admiralty shutter station stood close to Warren Towers at the boundary with Moulton (TL 664 639). It was part of a chain of such stations relaying signals between the Admiralty in London and the fleet based at Great Yarmouth during the Napoleonic wars.…

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Street-by-street pub list

History

The 1791 Universal British Directory lists William Day, John Grading, James Leader, Robert Ransom, John Warner and Thomas Waters as victuallers, Wm. Westley as a carpenter and victualler, and Daniel Potter and James Taylor as farmers and innkeepers.

A report in the Bury & Norwich Post** on 18 March in 1801 states that :

A licensed house, to be sold or left, 4 rooms on a floor with suitable offices, a spacious yard, stalls for 20 horses, granaries etc & late in the occupation of Mrs BRETT, the present proprietor, situate at Newmarket, adjoining the Exercising Ground…

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Acknowledgements

Some details from "Suffolk Airfields in WW2" by Graham Smith.

Some historical detail supplied by Sandra Easom

(** historic newspaper information from Bob Mitchell)

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