android appWoodbridge King's Head
opening hours
- Mon-Thu: 1200-1500, 1730-2200
- Fri-Sat: 1200-1500, 1730-2400
- Sun: 1200-1600
food times
- Mon-Thu: 1200-1400, 1800-2000
- Fri-Sat: 1200-1400, 1800-2100
- Sun: 1200-1500
regular real ales
- Adnams Broadside [H]
- Adnams Ghost Ship [H]
listed building grade II
Local licensing authority for Woodbridge is East Suffolk
CAMRA Ipswich & East Suffolk branch.
last updated Jan 10th, 2022.
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Woodbridge King's Head
formerly Saint Edmund's Head
South East, 52.09402,1.31279
Real Ale is sold here.
17 Market Hill, IP12 4LX
grid reference TM 270 491
bar / diner, opened 12th century
owner/operator: Adnams
A large, single beamed bar with an impressive fireplace & traditional seating in various drinking areas. The Barracks is a separate restaurant to rear of a more modern construction. Some outdoor seating is also available both to the front overlooking market hill & in the secluded courtyard to the rear. No admission after 11pm. Disabled toilet. Folk club on 3rd Tuesday every month and Jazz jam every 3rd Thursday.
The building dates from the late 15th/early 16th century.
Facilities
Accessible to disabled customers
Beer garden or other outside drinking area
Evening meals
Family friendly
Lunchtime meals (not just snacks)
Parking
Real fire
Restaurant or separate dining area
Traditional pub games available
Railway station about 0.4 miles away (see transport links for details)
Gallery
Nearest railway station
Woodbridge: 704 yards (643m)Other nearby Suffolk pubs
Angel 0.03 mile
Bull 0.07 mile
Olde Bell & Steelyard 0.11 mile
Crown 0.19 mile
Old Mariner 0.20 mile
Anchor 0.29 mileHistorical interest
The pub is shown on this OS town plan from 1881 (larger map).
Samuel Nevill, Distiller at the King's Head in the Market Place, Woodbridge sells all sorts of Brandies etc.Ipswich Journal, June 21st 1735***
To be lett, the King's-Head, an old accustom'd Publick-House, in the Market-Place, Woodbridge, with or without six or seven-and-twenty Acres of arable Land. Enquire of Mr Nathaniel Randall of Woodbridge, aforesaid.Ipswich Journal, June 30th 1750***
Charles Dunnett, aged 47, a horse farrier, who had lodged at the King’s Head for 11 months, had often claimed poverty to Mr Crammer, the landlord, to whom he was indebted, and for some weeks had been low in spirit…
Landlords
(Most pub, location & historic details collated by Nigel, Tony or Keith - original sources are credited)
(** historic newspaper information from Stuart Ansell)
(*** historic newspaper information from Bob Mitchell)
