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Sudbury Swan
also traded as Suffolk hotel
52.03861,0.73085
Closed: about 1844
Market Hill
grid reference TL 873 413 (approximate location)
The Swan is known to have been open between at least 1761 and 1838, when it was mentioned in reports in both the Ipswich Journal and the Bury & Norwich Post** as follows:
This day (January 6th) Thomas Fonnereau and John Henniker, approved for representing the Borough of Sudbury in the ensuing Parliament were met a mile or two out of the town by the Mayor and Aldermen and a great number of gentlemen and freemen who ushered them unto the Town hall amid a great concourse of people, an elegant entertainment was provided for the company at the Swan Inn and the whole day was spent in great harmony and good humour, drinking many loyal jovial toasts.Ipswich Journal, January 10th 1761
A most awful instance of sudden death occured at Sudbury on Thursday last, Mr E.Allen of Ballingdon Grove, a merchant…
Lady Elizabeth 0.04 mile
White Horse 0.07 mile
Gainsborough 0.08 mile
Weaver's Tap 0.11 mile
Wagon 0.15 mile
Grover & Allen 0.15 mileHistorical interest
Creditors of Seth bull, victualler, dealer and chapman of Sudbury are desired to meet at Swan in Sudbury on 8 March to assent or dissent from any suit for recovery or part recovery of the bankrupts estate… Ipswich Journal, 1 Mar 1794
John Haycroft of Six Bells Inn, Bury begs leave to thank the nobility, gentry and public for favours he has received and respectfully acquaints them that he has now taken the Swan in Sudbury which he purposes to stock with good beds and liquors etc and where he will solicit their future favours and continuance of former friends and customers to the house… Ipswich Journal, 12 Apr 1794
Sale to innkeepers by the assignees of Seth Bull formerly of Swan Inn in Sudbury – a post chaise now having undergone a complete repair… Ipswich Journal, 12 Apr 1794
Died on the 3rd …
Landlords
1751: Seth Bull ((the Swan Inn, in the Market-Place - 06 Apr***))
1758: Seth Bull ((at the Swan, Sudbury - 21 Jan***))
1766: Seth Bull ((at the Swan Inn, Sudbury - 13 Sep***))
1777: Seth Bull ((at the Swan Sudbury - 29 Nov***))
1794: Seth Bull ((a victualler of Sudbury - inn not named - declared bankrupt - 8 Feb & 1 Mar))
(Most pub, location & historic details collated by Nigel, Tony or Keith - original sources are credited)
(* reports reproduced with kind permission from Foxearth & District Local History Society)
(** historic newspaper information from Stuart Ansell)
(*** historic newspaper information from Bob Mitchell)
