To get the best out of this site you need Javascript enabled. If you cannot enable Javascript, please use the menu at the page bottom to navigate around the site.

Monks Eleigh Swan
Monks Eleigh Swan
South West, 52.09176,0.86886
Real Ale is sold here.
The St (A1141), IP7 7AU
grid reference TL 966 475
owner/operator: Penney
A welcoming, traditional country pub in the heart of Suffolk with grill menu and a choice of local cask ales on handpumps. Uppermost restaurant area has a large inglenook fireplace and there is a smaller real fire in the bar area. Owners reopened the pub in March 2023 after previous tenant closed pub suddenly in 2022. Food times to be updated when known.
Facilities
Beer garden or other outside drinking area
Bus stop nearby (see transport links for details)
Dogs welcome
Evening meals
Lunchtime meals (not just snacks)
Real fire
Restaurant or separate dining area
Separate bar
Special events: Quiz and comedy nights
Gallery
Nearest railway station
Other nearby Suffolk pubs
Historical interest
To be sold by auction under an Assignment for the benefit of Creditors, all the effects of Mr ushmerer Robert Turner, at the Swan, Monks Eleigh; comprising 4-post and other bedsteads with furnitures, 7 good goose feather beds with bedding, mahogany dining, Pembroke, and other tables, bureau, chest of drawers, chairs, pier and dressing glasses, Bath stoves, coal range, fire irons, glass, china, linen, wine spirits, beer, etc., capital brewing copper, mash and wort tubs, underback and coolers, upwards of 20 sweet iron bound beer casks, from 2 to 6 hogsheads, washing copper, boilers, saucepans, variety of kitchen requisite, a good strong wain, quarter cart, and a quantity of cart harness, large ditto of firewood, and other effects.Ipswich Journal, September 1815**
To be sold by auction, by in…
Landlords
(Most pub, location & historic details collated by Nigel, Tony or Keith - original sources are credited)
(** information from Stuart Ansell)
(*** Last Orders is a free local newsletter - published by Suffolk CAMRA memers since 1978)
