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opening hours
- Mon-Sat: 1200-2200
- Sun: 1200-2100
food times
- Mon-Sat: 1200-2100
- Sun: 1200-2000
guest beers
This pub serves 2 guest ales.
source: Local
listed building grade II
Local licensing authority for Oulton is East Suffolk
CAMRA North-East Suffolk branch.
last updated Dec 10th, 2021.
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Oulton Blue Boar
formerly Boar Inn
East, 52.49459,1.72006
Real Ale is sold here.
28 Oulton St, NR32 3BB
grid reference TM 526 950
gastropub, opened 1600
owner/operator: Wellington
Reopened 8th December 2021 under new managment of Burwood Inns Ltd following renovation work, which is continuing. there is a new kitchen and bar area with two dining areas. Customers are welcome to drink in the bar.
Some parts of the building date back to the late 18th century, the front part is from the 19th.
Facilities
Beer garden or other outside drinking area
Bus stop nearby (see transport links for details)
Evening meals
Family friendly
Lunchtime meals (not just snacks)
Parking
Pub sells beer from local brewers
Restaurant or separate dining area
Separate bar
Railway station about 1.3 miles away (see transport links for details)
Gallery
Nearest railway station
Oulton Broad North: 1.3 miles (2.1km)
Foxburrow 0.64 mile
Ole Frank 0.70 mile
Norman Warrior 0.81 mile
Mariner's Rest 1.32 miles
Stanford Arms 1.48 miles
Factory Arms 1.60 milesHistorical interest
The pub is shown on this old OS map from about 1904 (interactive map)
To be sold, the Blue Boar at Oulton, with a double Cottage, Barn, Stable and 5 Acres, 3 Roods and 23 Perches of Arable and Pasture Land thereto belonging, in the Occupation of Robert Lillystone and his Under-Tenants at the yearly Rent of £17.Ipswich Journal, April 16th 1768***
Auction for The Blue Boar, Oulton.....being a good road house consisting of 2 parlours, kitchen and a good cellar and several other useful rooms, barn and double stable with other necessary buildings, together with about 3 acres, more or less,garden ground, well planted with choice fruit trees in the occupation of Mr HENRY ELY, rent £3 per annum, under a lease to T.FARR Esq, Beccles of which 11 years are unexpired.Ipswich Journal, January 11th 1800**…
Landlords
Footnote
The blue boar was a heraldic sign for the Earl of Oxford a leading supporter of the Lancastrians who defeated and killed Richard III at Bosworth in 1495 - Henry VII became king - Richards emblem was a white boar forcing some pub signs to be hastily repainted.
(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)
(*** historic newspaper information from Stuart Ansell)
