Denham (Mid Suffolk) Green Man
Denham (Mid Suffolk) Green Man
South, 52.31973,1.22001
closed 10th May 1956
opened 1840s (mid)
last owner/operator: Lacon's
Denham Green
grid reference TM 195 739
The pub is shown on this old OS map from 1883. interactive map
The Green Man was popular with US airmen during the Second Word War, as it was close to the RAF Horham airbase. Glenn Miller certainly visited the pub; we're told that photographs exist of him standing outside it.
The building standing here now is not the original pub building, but is a more modern one constructed on the footprint of the pub (even incorporating a porch in the same position).
Ivy House 2.2 miles
Swan Inn of Hoxne 2.2 miles
White Hart 2.3 miles
De La Pole Arms 2.8 miles
Beaconsfield Arms 3.1 milesHistorical interest
Auction of a recently built freehold public house called the "Green Man Inn" with Butcher's Shop & Buildings at Denham, by the side of the road leading from Hoxne to Horeham, in the occupation of Mr John COOK.Ipswich Journal, May 29th 1847***
To be sold by auction, a substantially erected, well frequented freehold public house, called the Green Man Inn, in Denham near Eye, including kitchen, parlour, little parlour, bar, cellar, 5 bedrooms, convenient offices; with butcher's shop, slaughterhouse, stable and other buildings, and yard, eligibly suited for trade, by the side of the road leading from Hoxne to Horham, and now in the occupation of Mr John Cook, who is under notice to quit at Michaelmas next.Ipswich Journal, May 1850**
Landlords
Footnote
A Green Man is a sculpture, drawing, or other representation of a face surrounded by or made from leaves. Also frequently found on carvings in churches and other buildings (both secular and ecclesiastical).
(Most pub, location & historic details collated by Nigel, Tony or Keith - original sources are credited)
Thanks to Phil Saunders for letting us know that the building on site now is not actually the pub.
Closure date from 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.
