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Horham Eight Bells
CAMRA Mid-Anglia branch.
last updated Feb 13th, 2021.
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Horham Eight Bells
also traded as Six Bells, Bells
closed 5th July 1913
The Street
grid reference TM 205 723
The former Eight Bells is now residential and called Old Eight Bells House. The pub was forced to close in 1913 as part of a scheme to reduce the number of alcohol licenses.
It's shown on this old OS map from about the end of the 19th century. interactive map
Gallery
Ivy House 1.85 miles
White Hart 1.95 miles
Beaconsfield Arms 3.2 miles
De La Pole Arms 3.2 miles
Swan Inn of Hoxne 3.4 milesHistorical interest
All persons who stand indebted to the estate of Mr Samuel Ablett, late of the Bells Inn, Horham, deceased, are requested to pay the amount of their respective debts to his executors. Ipswich Journal, May 1820**
To be sold by auction, at the Horham Bells Inn, all the useful household furniture and effects, of Mr George Waldron, who quits at Michaelmas next.Ipswich Journal, September 1825**
Landlords
(Most pub, location & historic details collated by Nigel, Tony or Keith - original sources are credited)
(old PO directory information courtesy of londonpublichouse.com)
Closure date from the Hoxne licensing records.
(** historic newspaper information from Stuart Ansell) Old OS map reproduced with the permission of the National Library of Scotland.
