Felixstowe Orwell Hotel
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Felixstowe Orwell Hotel
formerly Elizabeth Orwell Hotel, Orwell Moat House
South West, 51.96743,1.35334
Hotel 
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Hamilton Rd, IP11 7DX
grid reference TM 304 351
hotel, opened July 1st 1898
owner/operator: Elizabeth Hotels
A large Victorian hotel close to the railway station and town centre. It has a small bar area and large sumptuous lounge areas. Large beer garden. There's a separate restaurant with carvery on Sundays. It also caters for vegetarian, vegan gluten free or dairy free diets.
Facilities
Accommodation available
Beer garden or other outside drinking area
Bus stop nearby (see transport links for details)
Evening meals
Family friendly
Function room available to hire
Lunchtime meals (not just snacks)
Parking
WiFi available
Railway station about 0.2 miles away (see transport links for details)
Gallery
Nearest railway station
Felixstowe: 352 yards (321m)Other nearby Suffolk pubs
Little Wine Bar 0.08 mile
Grosvenor 0.36 mile
Cellar Bar 0.51 mile
Cork 0.52 mile
Queen's Head 0.53 mile
One 29 0.53 mileHistorical interest
The hotel is shown on this old OS map from about 1902 (interactive map)
Owner/operator: free
no real aleCAMRA's 1997 Suffolk Real Ale Guide
Built by Douglas Tollemache.
Only partly finished at the end of May, 1898, it was open for business on 1st July on the day the town station opened & a celebratory luncheon was held here. The Orwell, like the Felix, was designed & built by Mr Tollemache, in "Helmingham style". It was run in it's early days by Carl Rosinky. In 1966, it underwent a great transformation after it was acquired by Mr Alex Taylor & Mr Charles McCoy, both well-known East Anglian hoteliers. Work began in May & by December, 1966, it had been rebuilt from cellar to roof, the exterior remaining virtually unchanged…
Landlords
(Most pub, location & historic details collated by Nigel, Tony or Keith - original sources are credited)
(** historic book information from Bob Mitchell)
