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last updated Aug 16th, 2021.
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Bedingfield Red Lion
also traded as Lion
South West, 52.26378,1.19206
closed 1960
opened 1820s?
last owner/operator: Lacon's
Hall Rd
grid reference TM 179 676
The pub is shown on this old OS map from about the end of the 19th century. interactive map
The Red Lion closed during the summer of 1960.
During WW2 the pub was popular with US pilots from the airfield at Horham. According to the village website, they used to start a lot of fights between themselves and the young men in the village. It seems the landlord got so sick of this he confiscated all the pilots' flick-knives and threw them into the garden pond.
According to A Survey of Suffolk Parish History, the pub was called the Lion in 1844 but had changed to the Red Lion by 1891.
Gallery
Nearby Suffolk pubs
Beaconsfield Arms 2.3 miles
Swan 2.8 miles
Black Horse 2.9 miles
Victoria 4.2 milesHistorical interest
All persons indebted to Mr Samuel Wright, late of the Lion Inn, Bedingfield, are requested to pay the same to Mr Henry Preston, auctioneer, who is authorised to receive the same. Creditors of S Wright are requested to send in their demands, so that his affairs may be speedily adjusted. Ipswich Journal, Nov 1815**
Robert Koipe COBBOLD of the Eye Brewery was retiring from business & was looking to sell various Inns & Public Houses including the Lion, Bedingfield. Ipswich Journal, 3rd June 3rd 1837***
Landlords
(Most pub, location & historic details collated by Nigel, Tony or Keith - original sources are credited)
Closure date from the Hoxne licensing records.
(1861 census information from Malcolm Fairley)
(** historic newspaper information from Stuart Ansell)
(*** historic newspaper information from Bob Mitchell)
Old OS map reproduced with the permission of the National Library of Scotland.
