android appIcklingham Guinness Arms
opening hours
- Mon-Sat: 0730-2130
- Sun: 0730-2000
regular cask ales
- Adnams Ghost Ship [H]
- Sharp's Doom Bar [H]
guest beers
This pub serves 1 guest ale.
listed building grade II
Local licensing authority for Icklingham is West Suffolk
CAMRA West Suffolk & Borders branch.
last updated Dec 2nd, 2023.
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Icklingham Guinness Arms
formerly Red Lion
North East, 52.32592,0.59785
Cask Ale is sold here.
The St (A1101), IP28 6PS
grid reference TL 771 729
bar / restaurant / hotel, opened 16th century
owner/operator: Elveden Farms Ltd
A 16th century Thatched pub that is now a free house.
The former Red Lion reopened in October 2019 as the Guinness Arms, with the name inspired by the Guinness family's connections with the Elveden Estate, which owns the pub.
Although quite "foodie", it's designed so that people who "just" want a drink are welcome throughout the pub. There are eight hotel rooms as well.
Facilities
Beer garden or other outside drinking area
Beer served through handpumps
Bus stop nearby (see transport links for details)
Dogs welcome
Evening meals
Family friendly
Lunchtime meals (not just snacks)
Parking
Real fire
Restaurant or separate dining area
Gallery
Nearest railway station
Kennett: 6.8 miles (10.9km)Other nearby Suffolk pubs
White Hart 2.4 miles
Bull Inn 2.9 miles
Bell 3.3 miles
Half Moon 3.5 miles
Maid's Head 3.8 miles
Bell 3.9 milesHistorical interest
The Red Lion is shown on this old OS map from about 1902 (interactive map)
Owner/operator: Greene King
[Red Lion]
Quintessential C16th thatched pub, loved by the locally based American servicemen. Largely food orientated.
Beers: Greene King IPA, Abbot.CAMRA's 1997 Suffolk Real Ale Guide
To be sold or lett, the Red Lion in Icklingham.Ipswich Journal, October 23rd 1742***
To be sold by private contract all that freehold messuage of tenement known by sign of Red Lion in Icklingham, with the homestall and orchard, well planted with fruit trees, containing about two acres of land with outhouses, barn and two stables now in occupation of Robert Bartlets under an agreement that will expire at Lady day 1785. Ipswich Journal, 28 Sep 1782
In 1861 listed in High st.…
Landlords
(Most pub, location & historic details collated by Nigel, Tony or Keith - original sources are credited)
(1861 census information from Malcolm Fairley)
(** historic newspaper information from Bob Mitchell)
