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Bedingfield Red Lion
Bedingfield Red Lion
also traded as Lion
closed 1960
opened 1820s?
last owner/operator: Lacon's
Hall Rd
grid reference TM 179 676
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.
The pub is shown on this old OS map from about the end of the 19th century. interactive map
Gallery
Other nearby Suffolk pubs
Historical interest
A report in the Ipswich Journal, 3rd June 3rd 1837**. stated that Robert Koipe COBBOLD of the Eye Brewery was retiring from business & was looking to sell various Inns & Public Houses including the Lion, Bedingfield.
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 Bob Mitchell)
Old OS map reproduced with the permission of the National Library of Scotland.
