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Great Blakenham Bell

Great Blakenham Bell

East, 52.12192,1.08782

Closed: about 1997

255 Stowmarket Rd

grid reference TM 114 515

The pub can be seen here on an old OS map from about the end of the 19th century. interactive map

old OS map

The building is mainly early 19th century, but with parts dating back to the late 16th or early 17th.

It's believed to have been called Bluebell Farm circa 1830 (it appears on the 1837 OS map as "Blue Bell")

Although listed in CAMRA's 1997 pub guide (albeit only selling keg), planning permission to convert this pub to residential use was granted in April of that year; it may have gone before that guide went to press.

Map

map

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Historical interest

Historical interest

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Landlords

Landlords

Footnote

NOTE: A messuage equates to a dwelling-house and may include outbuildings, orchard, curtilage or court-yard and garden - this may have been an earlier structure to the current property.

(Most pub, location & historic details collated by Nigel, Tony or Keith - original sources are credited)

(** historic newspaper information from Stuart Ansell)

(*** historic newspaper information from Bob Mitchell)

Old OS map reproduced with the permission of the National Library of Scotland.

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