android appLawshall Green Man
CAMRA West Suffolk & Borders branch.
last updated Jun 2nd, 2020.
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Lawshall Green Man
North East, 52.18036,0.70217
Closed: between 1958 and 1980
Folly Ln
grid reference TL 848 570
It's shown on this old OS map from about the end of the 19th century. interactive map
The Green Man is shown on OS maps at least as late as 1958, but by the 1980 sheet it's marked "The Willows", so evidently closed between those dates.
The building is now almost completely obscured from the road by trees, so our photographer couldn't get a good picture as he didn't want to trespass.
It has also been reported as being in Whepstead, as it's very close to the parishes' mutual boundary. However, as this report from the Bury Free Press** makes clear, it was in Lawshall.
July 19th 1879…
Gallery
White Horse 1.65 miles
Swan 2.1 miles
Red House 2.2 miles
Manger 2.7 miles
Plough 2.9 miles
Rushbrooke Arms 2.9 milesHistorical interest
Melon Green is listed in Whepstead in the 1879 Kelly's Directory.
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Footnote
A Green Man is a sculpture, drawing, or other representation of a face surrounded by or made from leaves. Also frequently found on carvings in churches and other buildings (both secular and ecclesiastical).
(Most pub, location & historic details collated by Nigel, Tony or Keith - original sources are credited)
(** news report reproduced with kind permission from Foxearth & District Local History Society)
Old OS map reproduced with the permission of the National Library of Scotland.
