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Newmarket Red Lion
Newmarket Red Lion
52.24516,0.40864
Closed: about 1850
opened pre-1760
High St
grid reference TL 645 635
The Newmarket Shops website tells us that the Red Lion stood where Rous Road now joins the High Street.
According to the Newmarket Pubs website, the pub was probably demolished when Rous Road was built, about 1850.
Historical interest
January 13th 1776: Yesterday morning about 6 the Norwich coach was stopped about one and a half miles from Newmarket by a highway man who was shot at by a passenger, upon him clapping his horse with his spurs he rode off a yards and fell, he was taken up and carried to the Red Lion Inn in Newmarket but expired an hour after. He had no pistol but used an iron candlestick, he proves to be one Walker whose father sometime kept the Star Inn, Newmarket.Ipswich Journal, January 1776**
To be lett, the Red Lion Inn at Newmarket, with the rooms adjoining, called, The Old Macaroni. The incoming tenant will not be required to take any of the present tenant's stock in trade, furniture, etc.Ipswich Journal, 12 Dec 1778***
e-advertised on 2nd Jan & 27 Mar 1779…
Landlords
1779: Richard Marshall, son of the late Jonah Marshall ((has taken the Red Lion Inn, in Newmarket - 03 July***))
1780: Mr. Marshall ((at the Red Lion at Newmarket - 25 Mar***))
(Most pub, location & historic details collated by Nigel, Tony or Keith - original sources are credited)
(** report reproduced with kind permission from Foxearth & District Local History Society)
(*** historic newspaper information from Bob Mitchell)