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Hitcham Buck's Horn (Blue Horns?)
Hitcham Buck's Horn (Blue Horns?)
South, 52.12113,0.89789
Closed: between 1840 and 1920
Fen Ln
grid reference TL 984 509
The corner of Fen lane and B1115 is called Bucks Horn corner, so logically ought to have been the pub's location (or near to it).
Message from Sandra PEERS Re Bucks Horn, Hitcham - from Bury & Norwich Post 18 Feb 1818 BY GEORCE BIDDELL. - Thursday se'unight, Mr. Robert Ward, aged 70, of the Buck's Horns, Hicham. On Wed 25 Sept 1809, Sale of Farming Live and Dead Stock, Dairy & Brewing Utensils, &c. of Mrs. HANNAH PILGRIM, near the Buck's Borns lnn, at Hicham Suffolk; comprising & very excellent cart mares and geldings of the Suffolk breed, now in their prime, with full manes and tails; capital black colt coming two years old, very fine foal, 4 good milch cows, & handsome heifers in calf, sow and 10 pigs, strong road waggon nearly new 2 narrow wheel tumbrils, single and double ploughs, harrows, roll, cart and plough trace, forks, rakes, hog troughs, cow binn, ladders, &c. brewing and washing coppere, mash and other tubs, cheese press leaded, banrel churn, butter and milk keelers, good beer casks, &c.-The Furniture consists of sacken bottom and other bedsteads and furniture, 3 good featherbeds, tables, chairs, chest with drawers, roasting jack, boilers, meat safe, powdering tubs, &c. to be expressed in Catalogues to be at Next Section at the public houses & place of sale.
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Nearby Suffolk pubs
Historical interest
Notice of a burglary at the House of Mrs Mary Curnell, at the Buck's Horns in Hitcham, near Bildeston.Ipswich Journal, November 21st 1747***
Landlords
(Most pub, location & historic details collated by Nigel, Tony or Keith - original sources are credited)
(*** historic newspaper information from Bob Mitchell)


