android appMartlesham Red Lion
Cash not accepted - card payments only.
opening hours
- Mon-Thu: 1100-2300
- Fri-Sat: 1100-2330
- Sun: 1130-2230
food times
- Mon-Sat: 1200-2200
- Sun: 1200-2130
guest beers
This pub serves 3 guest ales.
listed building grade II
Local licensing authority for Martlesham is East Suffolk
CAMRA Ipswich & East Suffolk branch.
last updated May 24th, 2023.
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Martlesham Red Lion
formerly Lion
East, 52.0772,1.28481
Cask Ale is sold here.
Main Rd, IP12 4RN
grid reference TM 251 471
bar / diner
owner/operator: Greene King / Chef & Brewer (Greene King)
A popular restaurant pub with a split level bar.
The lion's head figure on the outside wall is said to be the figurehead taken from a Dutch ship captured at the Battle of Sole Bay in 1672, though it has also been suggested it came from a vessel wrecked off Benacre in about 1740.
Parts of the building date from the late 16th century, with an early 19th century wing to the right.
Note that cash is not accepted here.
A Victorian brewery was also located here.
Facilities
Accessible to disabled customers
Beer garden or other outside drinking area
Beer served through handpumps
CAMRA members' discount scheme: 10% discount off cask beer for CAMRA members
Dogs welcome
Evening meals
Family friendly
Lunchtime meals (not just snacks)
Parking
Restaurant or separate dining area
Traditional pub games available
Railway station about 1.9 miles away (see transport links for details)
Gallery
Nearest railway station
Woodbridge: 1.9 miles (3.1km)Other nearby Suffolk pubs
Deben Seal 0.83 mile
Douglas Bader 1.25 miles
Cherry Tree 1.39 miles
King's Head 1.67 miles
Angel 1.68 milesHistorical interest
The pub is shown on this old OS map from about 1902 (interactive map)
Owner/operator: Scottish Courage
Food orientated pub/restaurant.
Beers: ScotCo Theakston's Best Bitter, XB.CAMRA's 1997 Suffolk Real Ale Guide
To be sold by auction by Robert Harris – at the Golden Lion in Ipswich on Friday 24th of May at 4 o’clock in the afternoon…Lot 1... an ancient and well accustomed freehold public house called the Lion in Martlesham, situate on the road leading from Woodbridge to Ipswich. With the stables and other convenient outhouses, yard and garden thereto belonging, now in the occupation on Mr Groom, tenant at will. Ipswich Journal, 18 May 1782
To be sold by auction at…
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 Bob Mitchell)
