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In the light of the government announcement of March 20th, all pubs are now closed until further notice.
Some of them may well still be offering a takeaway beer service and some others will also be selling food takeaways, perhaps even with delivery. If you can give any of our pubs some support through these terrible times by buying some takeaway food or drink, please do so. Our pubs need as much support of possible if they're going to still be there for us when the crisis is over.
Woodbridge Angel
opening hours
2-11 (midnight Fri & Sat); 12-10.30 Sun
guest beers
This pub serves 5 guest ales.
listed building grade II*
Local licensing authority for Woodbridge is East Suffolk
CAMRA Ipswich & East Suffolk branch.
last updated Mar 4th, 2020.
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Woodbridge Angel
formerly Black Boy
Real Ale is sold here.
2 Theatre St, IP12 4NE
grid reference TM 270 491
A traditional two bar pub with beams and tiled floors. There's an outdoor seating area with stables still in evidence to the rear.
The well-kept Real Ales are supplemented by a selection of over 270 different gins available. The range of gins has resulted in an entry in the Guinness Book of Records.
Two open mic evenings every month on the 2nd & 4th Wednesdays plus a DJ every Saturday evening and live music (see the pub's website). There's a wood fired pizza oven in the garden.
The building dates from the 16th century, though there's evidence of a pub on this site as long ago as the 12th century.
Facilities
Beer garden or other outside drinking area
Bus stop nearby (see transport links for details)
Cider (real draught, not keg) available
Dogs welcome
Family friendly
Live music
Parking
Pub sells beer from local brewers
Real fire
Separate bar
Smoking area
Traditional pub games available
WiFi available
Railway station about 0.4 miles away (see transport links for details)
Gallery
Nearest railway station
Woodbridge: 704 yards (643m)
King's Head 0.03 mile
Olde Bell & Steelyard 0.12 mile
Old Mariner 0.20 mile
Crown 0.21 mile
Anchor 0.31 mile
Cherry Tree 0.32 mileHistorical interest
[...]the current building was built in 1678 and, as a result of a bequest, a sum of £1 is paid annually from the takings to the "benefit of the needy poor" of Hasketon.Inns and Inn Signs of Norfolk & Suffolk, Alfred Hedges, 1976
The 1678 date seems to come from a will that's listed on a genealogy site as follows: Alice Osborne, by will, in 1678, charged the Angel Inn, in Woodbridge (formerly the Black Boy), with the payment of 20s…
Landlords
Footnote
NOTE: A messuage equates to a dwelling-house and may include outbuildings, orchard, curtilage or court-yard and garden - this may have been an earlier structure to the current property.
(Most pub, location & historic details collated by Nigel, Tony or Keith - original sources are credited)
(some old PO directory information courtesy of londonpublichouse.com)
(** historic newspaper information from Stuart Ansell)
(*** historic newspaper information from Bob Mitchell)
(**** historic newspaper information from John Martin)
