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Charsfield Three Horse Shoes
Charsfield Three Horse Shoes
also traded as Horse Shoe
South, 52.15975,1.29631
Closed: about 2019.
The St, IP13 7PY
grid reference TM 255 563
The pub is shown on this old OS map from about 1903 (interactive map)
Found empty and evidently undergoing renovation work when visited in May 2020. However, nothing further appeared to have been done in August 2020 and there's no indication of either reopening or of the pub being on the market, so we have to wonder if the pub has any future.
This two bar pub is set in a pretty village which will be forever linked with the fictional village of Akenfield. The modernised pub interiors offer a comfortable lounge & dining area in one room & a livelier but simply furnished public bar with tiled floor, real fire & piano.
Acoustic music night the first Saturday of each month. Locally sourced food with themed food evening specials boards with gluten free & vegetarian options.
There is a bus only twice a day through the village.
Only open for bookings on Sunday (closed in the evening)
Gallery
Historical interest
The pub was saved in 1997 when permission to change it to residential use was refused.
Owner/operator: Pubmaster
Homely two bar pub, with separate non-smoking dining room. Currently for sale.
Beer: Tetley Bitter; Tolly Bitter; Whitbread Flowers IPA.CAMRA's 1997 Suffolk Real Ale Guide
To be sold...at the White Hart in Wickham Market, the Three Horse Shoes Alehouse in Charsfield, now in the Occupation of Thomas Revett, with a Tenement and one Acre and a half of Land adjoining thereto, being all Freehold and in good Repair. Enquire of Mr John Revett of Wickham Market, aforesaid.Ipswich Journal, January 5th 1754***
The Creditors of James Mann, late of Charsfield, Innholder, (pub not named) are desired to meet at the Crown in Woodbridge...Ipswich Journal, 19 Apr 1777***
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)
Old OS map reproduced with the permission of the National Library of Scotland.