Laxfield Swan inn
Laxfield Swan inn
52.30653,1.37317
Closed: between 1840 and 1920
Banyards Green / Church St
grid reference TM 300 729 (approximate location)
Having examined all available Hoxne licensing records (1913-1968) without finding any reference to this pub, we conclude it must have closed before 1913.
Low House 0.37 mile
Royal Oak 0.43 mile
Huntingfield Arms 2.6 miles
Fox & Goose 3.7 miles
Swan 3.7 milesHistorical interest
To be sold by auction Wed next… All the household furniture of Mr Charles Cross at the Swan in Laxfield, consisting of beds, tables, chairs, a 24 hour clock, coal range, three stoves, a copper, irons etc, a very good cow, two hogs, loads of wood, about 20 tuns of good hayIpswich Journal, 22 Nov 1783
To be sold at Swan in Harleston on 2 July at 3 o clock: that well accustomed public house called White Horse in Laxfield with a wheelwrights shop and occupied thereof and in which a very considerable trade has been carried out for the past twenty years.Suffolk Chronicle, 31 Jun 1817
Landlords
1783: Mr Charles Cross ((at the Swan in Laxfield - 22 Nov))
1841: Wm Chaston ((Wheelwright, not shown as pub or publican, Head/45y/born outside Suffolk) [Wife Ann])
1844: William Chaston ((beer retailer - pub not named))
1851: Ann Cheston ((Beer retailer, Church St., pub not named, Head/Widow/48y/born Hilboro, Norfolk))
1855: Ann Chaston ((beer retailer - pub not named))
(Most pub, location & historic details collated by Nigel, Tony or Keith - original sources are credited)
(1861 census information from Malcolm Fairley)
