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Ipswich Orwell Hotel
also traded as Orwell Inn
East, 52.04789,1.15969
closed January 1961
last owner/operator: catchpole
120 New Cut West
grid reference TM 167 435
The pub can be seen on this OS town plan from about 1880 (larger map).
The 1883 OS map shows the Orwell Hotel to have stood on the north-west corner of the junction between New Cut West and Bright Street. It was closed in 1961 as part of a long-standing scheme to reduce the number of "excess" alcohol licenses. It's since been demolished.
It's also listed at Griffin Road (1855) and Griffin Wharf (in 1865 & 1869).
Gallery
Steamboat Tavern 0.09 mile
Silver Star 0.26 mile
Isaacs 0.34 mile
Briarbank 0.38 mile
Bin 93 0.38 mile
Lord Nelson 0.39 mileHistorical interest
PC Nunn went to the Orwell Hotel at about 8am Sunday morning and found two men in the back yard with a pint of liquor each, the landlord told the officer that the men were travellers one from Colchester the other from Braintree. The magistrates considered this a very serious offence and fined the landlord, William Francis Hender, 50s and 15s costs, and ordered his license to be endorsed. Ipswich Journal, Sep 1890**
Landlords
(Most pub, location & historic details collated by Nigel, Tony or Keith - original sources are credited)
Closure date from Ipswich licensing records.
(** historic newspaper information from Stuart Ansell)
(some old PO directory information courtesy of londonpublichouse.com)
Old OS map reproduced with the permission of the National Library of Scotland.
