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Botesdale King's Arms
52.34239,1.00444
Closed: pre-1841?
The St
grid reference TM 047 758 (approximate location)
The exact location of the King's Arms is unknown, but there are two unidentified pubs in Botesdale Street, so it may have been one of those.
Greyhound 0.01 mile
Bell 0.07 mile
Cross Keys 1.34 miles
White Horse 2.5 miles
Blue Boar 4.1 milesHistorical interest
The pub is listed in the 1840 Pigot's directory and 1841 census (First entry in the Street, after Back Hills).
To be sold by auction the capital commercial house the King's Arms, Botesdale, pleasantly situated in the centre of the town , with extensive cellarage and wine vaults, good stabling, lock up coach houses, walled garden planted with choice fruit trees; also three and a half acres of very superior pasture land. The property is freehold, in an excellent state of repair, and so well situated as to command a good trade, possession may be had at midsummer.Ipswich Journal, February 1840**
The King's Arms Inn, Bottesdale, to be sold for the benefit of creditors. It is freehold, in very good and substantial repair…
Landlords
1840: Jno. Broddle
1841: John Richardson ((Brewer, Head/30y/born Suffolk))
(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)
