Newmarket Bull
opening hours
- Mon-Thu: 1000-2300
- Fri-Sat: 1000-2400
- Sun: 1000-2200
food times
- Mon-Sat: 1000-2100
- Sun: 1000-2000
regular cask ales
- Greene King Abbot [H]
- Greene King IPA [H]
guest beers
This pub serves 1 guest ale.
source: National
listed building grade II
Local licensing authority for Newmarket is West Suffolk
CAMRA West Suffolk & Borders branch.
last updated Nov 21st, 2023.
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Newmarket Bull
South East, 52.24452,0.40649
Cask Ale is sold here.
62 High St, CB8 8LB
grid reference TL 643 634
opened pre-1768
owner/operator: Greene King
Busy town pub with food all day. Popular with younger drinkers in evening. Occasional live music and karaoke. Two cask ales on all year round with a seasonal Greene King guest beer.
The building dates from the 18th century.
Facilities
Accessible to disabled customers
Beer garden or other outside drinking area
Bus stop nearby (see transport links for details)
CAMRA members' discount scheme: 10% discount off cask beer for CAMRA members
Evening meals
Live music
Lunchtime meals (not just snacks)
Parking
Traditional pub games available
Railway station about 0.5 miles away (see transport links for details)
Gallery
Nearest railway station
Newmarket: 0.5 miles (0.8km)Other nearby Suffolk pubs
Bushel 0.04 mile
Golden Lion 0.05 mile
Waggon & Horses 0.08 mile
White Hart 0.14 mile
Shoes 0.17 mile
Yard 0.21 mileHistorical interest
Owner/operator: Greene King
Busy pub, with lunchtime food trade and popular venue with the young of an evening.
Beers: Greene King IPA; Abbot.CAMRA's 1997 Suffolk Real Ale Guide
A former commercial inn & posting house
Bull Inn, Newmarket, Auction Sale...(Property description)...The above premises being so extensive, the Proprietor purposes dividing them into lots, unless an eligible offer be made...The Inn has lately undergone a thorough repair, and there being a communication from the yard to the Corn Market, makes it capable of being one of the best market houses in Town...it may be viewed by applying to Mr GRANGER, the ProprietorIpswich Journal, May 29th 1811**
Landlords
Footnote
Name may be a sympathetic reference to a Papal bull - a lead seal attached to official religious edicts or documents - or a reference to Henry VIII who introduced a bulls head into his coat-of-arms after he defied a papal bull in 1538. Bull baiting was also quite widespread until it was banned in 1835.
Earliest known date from the Newmarket Shops website.
(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 Bob Mitchell)
