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Beccles Prince of Wales
West, 52.45927,1.5626
Closed: between 1851 and 1861
9 Saltgate
grid reference TM 421 905
The address comes from the 1909 rating records. The pub was demolished and the cinema was built on its site. A later Prince of Wales was on Smallgate.
This pub closed some time between 1851 and 1861 and the license was transferred to the Railway Hotel.
Bear & Bells 0.04 mile
Graze at the White Horse 0.10 mile
King's Head Hotel 0.12 mile
Oakfired at Royal Oak 0.15 mile
Wine Vaults 0.18 mileHistorical interest
The Beccles Brewery was sold with a house, gardens, building plots, a hotel [Kings Head] and 32 public houses previously owned by Frederick William Farr, at the Kings Head in Beccles on 28 Apr 1852. See Suffolk Archives Ref: 559/1 - This sale included the Prince of Wales, Saltgate Street, Beccles [landlord Benjamin Ward]
Landlords
(Most pub, location & historic details collated by Nigel, Tony or Keith - original sources are credited)
Some information from records transcribed by Foxearth & District Local History Society.
