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Westhall Greyhound
Westhall Greyhound
52.37529,1.54228
Closed: 1893 or 4
opened pre-1841
last owner/operator: Rev. Richard Lacon
Mill Common
grid reference TM 412 811
It's shown on this old OS map from 1883 (interactive map).

The Greyhound closed some time between September 1893 and September 1894 (the precise date is unknown, but an approximate date has been found through licensing records).
Message from Linda Fletcher: Just to correct the information about this pub. The house which used to be the Greyhound pub is now called Hill House. Greyhound Farm is the place next door. I
Greyhound Farm used to be a fully working farm with tied cottages, built about the same time as the pub and, in the days before proper postal addresses, its name was just a description of its location (near The Greyhound)
The cottages and farmland (which no doubt provided thirsty customers for the pub) have long since been demolished or sold off, and Greyhound Farm is no longer an agricultural business.
Interestingly, Hill House (as it is now) is identifiable as a former pub because it is one of the very few buildings in this area which has a cellar. The clay soil and high water table make cellars a problem and I remember when we first moved here (forty years ago) Hill House’s cellar used to flood very often. We were told this had always been the case and, when it was a pub, they used to keep the wooden beer barrels cool and stop the wood from drying out by floating them in the flooded cellar.
Gallery
Historical interest
To be sold by auction that old and well accustomed freehold public house, or Inn, known by the sign of the Greyhound, situated and being in Westhall, with tenement or cottage adjoining thereto, together with good stable, an excellent orchard, well planted with fruit trees, yard, garden, and other appurtenances there unto belonging, and now in tenure or occupation of John Ellis and his under tenant.Ipswich Journal, April 1815**
Robert Pinkerey, landlord of the Grey Hound Inn, Westhall, was convicted in the mitigated penalty of 1s and 7s costs for having kept his house open during the hour of Divine Service, on Sunday 17 March 1850…
Landlords
(Most pub, location & historic details collated by Nigel, Tony or Keith - original sources are credited)
(some old PO directory information courtesy of londonpublichouse.com)
(** information from Stuart Ansell)
(*** historic newspaper information from Bob Mitchell)
Closure date from Blything licensing records.
Old OS map reproduced with the permission of the National Library of Scotland.


