android appSudbury Rifleman's Arms
Sudbury Rifleman's Arms
also traded as Rifle Arms, Rifleman
52.04613,0.72646
Closed unknown era
Melford Rd
grid reference TL 870 421
The pub is shown on the OS town plan of 1884.
The pub was known as the Rifle Arms Inn in 1893. It has been demolished.
On Saturday there was much excitement in Sudbury by the fact that a strange Police Inspector and two strange constables, all in uniform were pursuing in hot haste up North street two soldiers whom they captured near the Rifle Arms Inn. The men, Private Nicholls and Cook of the Suffolk Regiment were handcuffed and taken to the police station where they were charged with attempting burglary at the Bull in Colchester. The police walked all the way from Colchester to the Five Bells at Cornard where they hired a horse and trap…
Bay Horse 0.20 mile
Prince of Wales 0.35 mile
North Street Tavern 0.39 mile
Grover & Allen 0.40 mile
Wagon 0.44 mile
Horse & Groom 0.47 mileLandlords
1865: John Byford ((Beer retailer, Melford Rd., pub not named))
1869: John Byford
1871: John Byford ((Innkeeper, Rifle Arms, Head/Married/55y/born Walworth, Surrey))
1874: John Byford
1879: Isaac Wright
(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)
(some old PO directory information courtesy of londonpublichouse.com)
