Newmarket White Lion
last updated Sep 19th, 2022.
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Newmarket White Lion
South East, 52.24146,0.3989
Closed: some time between August 2015 and June 2017
last owner/operator: Greene King
216 High St, CB8 9AP
grid reference TL 638 630
The pub is shown on this OS town plan from 1894 (larger map).
Nearest pub to racecourse with two homely bars and separate dining room. Accommodation is also available (8 rooms). Found closed and boarded-up 16 June 2017..
Owner/operator: Greene King
Nearest pub to the racecourse. Homely bars with log fires in winter. Separate dining room with excellent innovative cooking served up by the chef cum landlord. New hotel accommodation should be open by the end of 1996.
Beers: Greene King IPA, seasonal ale, Abbot.CAMRA's 1997 Suffolk Real Ale Guide
Gallery
Yard 0.17 mile
White Hart 0.25 mile
Bushel 0.35 mile
Bull 0.38 mile
Golden Lion 0.43 mile
Waggon & Horses 0.46 mileHistorical interest
Larceny: Annie Wand, domestic servant of Borough Green was found guilty of stealing a silk handkerchief, value 5s, the property of James BARTHOLOMEW, Innkeeper, White Lion Inn, Newmarket. - Fined £1, paid by her father.Bury & Norfolk Post & Suffolk Herald, April 22nd 1884**
Tony Pringle tells us that the White Lion was purchased by Unex(No3) Ltd and the licence was surrendered on 2 June 2016. Bill Gredley (of Unex) had plans to demolish it and then replace it with a modern hotel as part of his development plans for that end of the town, but failed to get the necessary planning permission.
Landlords
(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)
(1830 Pigots Directory & 1869 Kelly's Directory supplied by Sandra Easom)
Old OS map reproduced with the permission of the National Library of Scotland.
