android appHadleigh Eight Bells
opening hours
- Mon: closed
- Tue-Thu: 1200-2300
- Fri-Sat: 1200-2330
- Sun: 1200-2200
listed building grade II
Local licensing authority for Hadleigh is Babergh
CAMRA Ipswich & East Suffolk branch.
last updated May 11th, 2022.
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Hadleigh Eight Bells
North East, 52.04663,0.95729
Cask Ale is understood not to be sold here.
90 Angel St, IP7 5DD
grid reference TM 028 428
opened 1644 (earliest known reference)
Parts of the building date from well before the 17th century.
Facilities
Beer garden or other outside drinking area
Dogs welcome
Evening meals
Family friendly
Lunchtime meals (not just snacks)
Parking
Quiet pub - no electronic games, piped music or jukebox
Real fire
Separate bar
Traditional pub games available
Gallery
Nearest railway station
Ipswich: 9.3 miles (15.0km)Other nearby Suffolk pubs
Cock 0.10 mile
King's Head 0.21 mile
George 0.25 mile
Marquis 1.64 miles
Bell 1.97 milesHistorical interest
The pub is shown on this old OS map from about 1902 (interactive map)
Owner/operator: free
Quiet back street local. Steel Quoits played.
Beers: Whitbread Boddinton's Bitter.CAMRA's 1997 Suffolk Real Ale Guide
Part of the present building (close to road junction) was once a separate pub called the Pickerel. The part of the building formerly the Bells is now used as a restaurant.
At the Hadleigh Petty Sessions in March 1875, the license for the Eight Bells, Hadleigh, was transferred from Henry Durrant to John Clarke.Ipswich Journal, Mar 1875**
In 1937 the pub was listed in Kelly's Directory as one of 220 pubs that were retailing beer that they were brewing.
Owned by Stewart & Patteson until 1963 - later by Watney's & Grand Met. until 1987**.…
Landlords
(Most pub, location & historic details collated by Nigel, Tony or Keith - original sources are credited)
(Historic details supplied by Bob Mitchell)
