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Shipmeadow Compasses?
Shipmeadow Compasses?
52.45544,1.50523
Thought to have been a pub but there is a degree of doubt.
The Hill
grid reference TM 382 899 (approximate location)
The 1837 OS map is marked "Compasses" at this approximate location. Was it a pub? If you know for certain one way or the other, please let us know.
There's no mention of this in the 1909 Rates book, so if it was a pub, it must have closed before then.
No pub references have been found in any of the censuses from 1841 to 1901.
A Survey of Suffolk Parish History lists a beerhouse in 1844 - perhaps this was it?
(Most pub, location & historic details collated by Nigel, Tony or Keith - original sources are credited)