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Honington Fox
Honington Fox
North West, 52.3356,0.80387
Cask Ale is sold here.
Troston Rd, IP31 1RD
grid reference TL 911 745
opened pre-1794
Recently refurbished. A 1930s pub that's popular with personnel from nearby RAF base. Four rotating beers, sofas, today's papers and pool table.
According to A Survey of Suffolk Parish History, the pub was referred to in a murder trial in 1794. Old OS maps clearly show it as a different building to the current one.
Facilities
- Beer garden or other outside drinking area
- Bus stop nearby (see transport links for details)
- Dogs welcome
- Evening meals
- Family friendly
- Lunchtime meals (not just snacks)
- Newspapers available
- Parking
- Real fire
- Separate bar
- Traditional pub games available
Gallery
Nearest railway station
Other nearby Suffolk pubs
Historical interest
The original pub is shown on this old OS map from about 1902 (interactive map)
Owner/operator: Pubmaster
Tidy 1930's pub, popular with personnel from the nearby RAF base.
Beers: hitbread Boddington's Bitter; guest beer (Pubmaster list).CAMRA's 1997 Suffolk Real Ale Guide
Died at Hopton, on the 5th September 1855, aged 78; Ann, widow of Mr Joseph Woollard, of the Fox Inn, Honington.Ipswich Journal, September 1855**
At the Ixworth Petty Sessions held on the 10 May 1875, an extension of time in Whitsun week was granted to John Catchpool of the Fox Inn, Honnington.Ipswich Journal, May 1875**
At the Ixworth Petty Sessions of December 1884 the license for the Fox at Honington was transferred from Susan Catchpole to her husband, William Fowler.Ipswich Journal, January 1885**
Landlords
(Most pub, location & historic details collated by Nigel, Tony or Keith - original sources are credited)
(old PO directory information courtesy of londonpublichouse.com)
(** historic newspaper information from Stuart Ansell)