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Leavenheath Hare & Hounds
Leavenheath Hare & Hounds
formerly Hare
West, 52.00067,0.84558
Cask Ale is sold here.
Harrow St (A134), CO6 4PW
grid reference TL 954 374
free house
owner/operator: Hare and Hounds (Leavenheath) Ltd
Open-plan family run pub with a single bar now offers GK IPA, Adnams and guest beers from small local brewers. Cellar refitted in Jan 2012. Pub is popular with local football and cricket teams. The building dates from the early 19th century and has a L shaped counter in a large open-plan single bar and a large garden and car-park. Food Saturday only.
Facilities
- Accessible to disabled customers
- Beer garden or other outside drinking area
- Evening meals
- Family friendly
- Lunchtime meals (not just snacks)
- Parking
- Real fire
- Separate bar
- Traditional pub games available
Railway station about 4.9 miles away (see transport links for details)
Gallery
Nearest railway station
Other nearby Suffolk pubs
Historical interest
The pub is shown on this old OS map from about 1902 (interactive map)
Owner/operator: Greene King
Recently modernised pub providing a genuinely warm welcome. The large garden incorporates a steel quoits pitch and children's play area.
Beers: Greene King XX Mild, IPA, seasonal ale, Abbot.CAMRA's 1997 Suffolk Real Ale Guide
Prior to 1851, the pub was in Stoke by Nayland so will appear in old records under that village.
To be sold...a Messuage, with the Apputenances used as a Publick-House, and called the Hare and Hounds, Stoke next Nayland, now in the Occupation of Thomas Eastall.Ipswich Journal, July 31st 1756***
At the annual licensing meeting for Boxford, Mr Baker Hazell applied for the license for the Hare and Hounds, Stoke, which had been closed for some time…
Landlords
Footnote
NOTE: A messuage equates to a dwelling-house and may include outbuildings, orchard, curtilage or court-yard and garden - this may have been an earlier structure to the current property.
(Most pub, location & historic details collated by Nigel, Tony or Keith - original sources are credited)
(some old PO directory information courtesy of londonpublichouse.com)
(** historic newspaper information from Stuart Ansell)
(*** historic newspaper information from Bob Mitchell)
(**** Last Orders is a free local newsletter - published by Suffolk CAMRA members since 1978)