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Halesworth Hawk
Halesworth Hawk
also traded as Hawke
Closed between 1970 and 2000
opened pre-1874
19 Bridge St
grid reference TM 386 776
The Annual Shew of Horses and Beasts, in a Pightle, at the sign of The HAWK, Halesworth on Thursday, 29th Oct.Ipswich Journal, October 24th 1801**
(NOTE: Pightle means "small field or enclosure")
Died, on 4th May, 1840, aged 40, Mrs Martha Carman, daughter of Mr WOOLNOUGH of the Hawk Inn, Halesworth.Ipswich Journal, May 20th 1840**
Died on the 27th, aged 47, Mr James Cooper, of the Hawk Inn, Halesworth.Ipswich Journal, November 1850***
Gallery
Other nearby Suffolk pubs
Historical interest
Ref to Thomas Revet at the White Hart, Halesworth and his move to the Hawk on 10th October with Mary Burgess, widow, who has kept that inn for many years, moving to the White Hart.Ipswich Journal, 28 Sep 1776***
Landlords
1776: Thomas Revet ((move to the Hawk from White Hart - replacing Mary Burgess (widow) - 28 Sep***))
1791: John Tirrell ((Victualler, Hawke))
1823: James Garnham
1830: Thomas Woolnough
1839: Thomas Woolnough
(Most pub, location & historic details collated by Nigel, Tony or Keith - original sources are credited)
(** historic newspaper information from Bob Mitchell)
(*** historic newspaper information from Stuart Ansell)
