Bures Eight Bells (Bures Hamlet)
listed building grade II
Bures is part of the Bures St Mary parish.
last updated Jun 27th, 2025.
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Bures Eight Bells (Bures Hamlet)
South East, 51.97151,0.7718
Not in Suffolk, but included for community reasons.
Colchester Rd, CO8 5AE
grid reference TL 904 339
The Eight Bells is on the Essex side of the village; we include it here as both the Essex and Suffolk Bures parishes effectively make up a single village settlement.
We don't keep up-to-date information about this pub, but you can find more information at the national CAMRA website.
It was listed in 1922 as a family & commercial hotel & garage; "taxi cabs meet all trains".
Facilities
Railway station about 0.2 miles away (see transport links for details)
Gallery
Nearest railway station
Bures: 352 yards (321m)
Three Horseshoes 0.18 mile
Shoulder of Mutton 3.2 miles
Brook Inn 3.6 miles
Hare & Hounds 3.7 miles
King's Head 3.9 miles
Saracen's Head 4.3 milesHistorical interest
The pub is shown on this old OS map from about 1902 (interactive map)
John Thompson applied for the transfer of the license for the Eight Bells, Bures Hamlet, from Abraham Cousins and was refused. Thompson, whose wife kept the Norwich Arms, Ipswich, had a recent conviction for assault on a soldier he had also been fined, in October, for allowing his house (Norwich Arms) to be the habitual resort of prostitutes, then in February another fine for selling during prohibited hours. Ipswich Journal, April 1875**
Landlords
(Most pub, location & historic details collated by Nigel, Tony or Keith - original sources are credited)
(some old PO directory information courtesy of londonpublichouse.com)
(** historic newspaper information from Stuart Ansell)
