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Ipswich Cross Inn
North, 52.05823,1.15311
Closed: about 1775
Cornhill
grid reference TM 162 446
The Cross Tavern was a prominent inn on the corn hill until it closed about 1775.
The building was then converted into Waterloo house (later Old Waterloo house)which was a retail shop. The building was subsequently demolished in the late 1880s to make way for the current Lloyd's Bank building.
Three Wise Monkeys 0.03 mile
Manning's 0.04 mile
Rep 0.07 mile
Swan & Hedgehog 0.08 mile
Arcade Street Tavern 0.08 mile
Cricketers 0.12 mileHistorical interest
A reference appears in the Ipswich Journal, November 1st 1729***, to Edward Whaley at the Cross Tavern on the Cornhill.
A reference appears in the Ipswich Journal, August 29th 1730***, to Edward Whaley at the Cross Tavern on the Cornhill.
A reference appears in the Ipswich Journal, July 27th 1734**,* to Edward Whaley at the Cross Tavern, now rebuilt in the Corn-Hill near the Market Cross in Ipswich.
Edward Whaley, removed from the Cross Tavern on the Corn Hill into St Nicholas-street near the Faulcon, (selling spirits).Ipswich Journal, April 21st 1739***
William Gledhill, from the Black Bull Inn in Leadenhall-Street, London, has taken the Cross-Tavern in Ipswich.Ipswich Journal, September 17th 1748***
George Almond is removed from the Golden Lyon to the Cross Tavern, Ipswich, and has fitted it …
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(Most pub, location & historic details collated by Nigel, Tony or Keith - original sources are credited)
(*** historic newspaper information from Bob Mitchell)
