android appMelton Red Lion
Melton Red Lion
also traded as Lion
South East, 52.10718,1.3327
Closed: before 1891
Yarmouth Rd
grid reference TM 283 506
This pub must have closed some time between 1855 (the last date there's a record for it) and 1891, when the Police House (now called Couplings) was built on its site.
Coach & Horses 0.30 mile
Wilford Bridge 0.51 mile
Warwick 0.99 mile
Red Lion 1.01 miles
Old Mariner 1.10 miles
Olde Bell & Steelyard 1.17 milesHistorical interest
To be sold by auction, on the 8th June 1820, at the Crown Inn, Woodbridge, Lot 6., the Red Lion, public house, in Melton, with yards, garden and buildings thereto belonging. The tenant has had notice to quit at Michaelmas.Ipswich Journal, May 1820**
Died on the 29th November 1845, at Melton, Mr William Tuffield, Lion Inn, aged 69.Ipswich Journal, December 1845**
Landlords
1779: William Bilby ((at the Red Lion, Melton - 18 Sep***))
1830: William Tuffield ((Lion))
1839: William Tuffield ((Red Lion))
1841: William Tuffield ((Publican, pub not named, Head/65y/born Suffolk))
1844: Wm. Tuffield ((Lion))
(Most pub, location & historic details collated by Nigel, Tony or Keith - original sources are credited)
(** historic newspaper information from Stuart Ansell)
