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Leiston Royal Standard
Leiston Royal Standard
East, 52.20673,1.5772
Cask Ale is sold here.
40 High St, IP16 4EW
grid reference TM 445 625
opened pre-1874
A no-frills town pub.
Facilities
- Accessible to disabled customers
- Beer garden or other outside drinking area
- Beer served through handpumps
- Bus stop nearby (see transport links for details)
- Real fire
- Traditional pub games available
Railway station about 4.3 miles away (see transport links for details)
Gallery
Nearest railway station
Other nearby Suffolk pubs
Historical interest
Owner/operator: free
Reopened as a no frills town centre freehouse.
Beers: ScotCo Courage Directors; Greene King IPA, seasonal ale, Abbot.CAMRA's 1997 Suffolk Real Ale Guide
To be sold by auction, on the premises of the Royal Standard, Leiston, the household furniture, seven featherbeds, bedding and other effects, throughout the house; also a small brewing plant, the property of Mr Jonathan Witting, who is leaving the place.Ipswich Journal, November 1870**
At the Halesworth Petty Sessions of January 1875, the license for the Royal Standard, Leiston, beer house, was transferred from John Cole to James Cole.Ipswich Journal, January 1875**
Originally only licensed as a beerhouse, the pub got its full license on March 3rd 1958 (transferred from the Chediston Duke).
Landlords
1841: George Gildersleeves ((Farmer, Street, not shown as pub or publican, Head/52y/born Suffolk))
1841: + Ann Gildersleeves ((Street, not shown as pub or publican, 46y/born Suffolk))
1851: George Gildersleeves ((Innkeeper, pub not named, Head/Married/63y/born Huntingfield))
1851: + Ann Gildersleeves ((Pub not named, Wife/Married/56y/born Sizewell))
1855: George Gildersleeves ((Brewer & beerhouse keeper, pub not named))
(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)