Sudbury Green Dragon Inn
last updated Mar 15th, 2023.
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Sudbury Green Dragon Inn
also traded as Dragon
South West, 52.03979,0.73137
Closed: between 1920 and 1970
93 North St
grid reference TL 874 414
It's shown on this OS town plan from 1891 (larger map).
Mr Russell Houghton tells us that an indenture he has seen records the name change from Talbards to the Green Dragon between 1712 and 1714. Ownership also changed from Thomas Tyler to Martha Pannell but the occupier was the widow Barnard at that time (1714).
The Green Dragon was finally demolished in the 1960s.
Gallery
White Horse 0.02 mile
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Grover & Allen 0.09 mile
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Brewery Tap 0.10 mile
Gainsborough 0.10 mileHistorical interest
To be lett, a good accustom'd Inn standing in North-Street, Sudbury and near the Market-Place, and in the great Road from Bury to London: The House consisting of four Rooms on a Floor in Front, known by the Sign of the Green Dragon, and now in the Occupation of Mr John Edwards; with a good Brewhouse, and Stabling for Thirty to Forty Horses; with a good Yard and large Garden…Enquire of Arthur Brewer of Sudbury.Ipswich Journal, 10 Jan 1747***
To be let, the public house known as the Green Dragon, situated in North Street, Sudbury, and now in the occupation of Mr Thomas Dixey, declining business. The stock consists of about 80 Hogsheads of home brewed beer, good store casks, and brewing utensils, with household furniture and fixtures.Ipswich Journal, Mar 1805**
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Footnote
The green dragon may be a reference to the Earl of Pembroke and appears on their coat of arms. William de la Pole, 1st Duke of Suffolk was an important medieval English soldier and commander in the Hundred Years' War and later Lord Chamberlain of England. He was created Earl of Pembroke in 1447 and Duke of Suffolk in 1448.
(Most pub, location & historic details collated by Nigel, Tony or Keith - original sources are credited)
(**** report reproduced with kind permission from Foxearth & District Local History Society)
(*** historic newspaper information from Bob Mitchell)
(** 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.
