android appRumburgh Buck
opening hours
- Mon-Fri: 1200-1430, 1700-2200
- Sat-Sun: 1200-2300
food times
- Mon-Sat: 1200-1400, 1700-2000
- Sun: 1200-1400, 1500-1800
guest beers
This pub serves 5 guest ales.
source: Regional
Local licensing authority for Rumburgh is East Suffolk
CAMRA North-East Suffolk branch.
last updated Feb 14th, 2021.
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Rumburgh Buck
East, 52.38056,1.44454
Real Ale is sold here.
Mill Rd, IP19 0NT
grid reference TM 345 814
opened 16th century
owner/operator: David Maskery
Suffolk County Pub of the Year 2023. A splendid characterful pub, which was originally the guesthouse for the Benedictine priory. This inn was extended some years ago and now has two dining areas with a public bar and games room retained around the historic core. The original bar is timber-framed with a flagstone floor. At the heart of village life, the pub hosts folk music evenings and is home to the Rumburgh Morris and Old Glory Molly Dancers. Good quality meals are served featuring locally sourced produce (booking is advisable).
The inn and the parish church were formerly part of a Benedictine priory.
Facilities
Beer festivals
Beer garden or other outside drinking area
Beer served through handpumps
Camping or caravan site nearby: (close to the pub)
Cider (real draught, not keg) available: Giggler
Dogs welcome: public bar and garden
Evening meals: Pizza truck each Wed evening
Family friendly
Live music
Lunchtime meals (not just snacks)
Parking
Pub sells beer from local brewers
Quiet pub - no electronic games, piped music or jukebox
Real fire
Restaurant or separate dining area
Separate bar
Smoking area: garden
Traditional pub games available
WiFi available
Railway station about 3.9 miles away (see transport links for details)
Gallery
Nearest railway station
Halesworth: 3.9 miles (6.3km)
Huntsman & Hounds 2.4 miles
St. Peter's Hall 2.5 miles
Triple Plea 3.3 miles
White Hart 3.5 miles
Angel 3.6 miles
White Swan 3.6 milesHistorical interest
The pub is shown on this old OS map from about 1903 (interactive map)
The pub is a former 16th century monastery guesthouse.
Walter Keen, of the Buck Inn, Rumburgh, was found guilty of serving intoxicating liquor during prohibited hours. A man named Day went to Keens house on a Monday night after 10pm for a bottle of gin, for Cutts’s children, who were unwell. The gin was carried to Cutts’s house, and a second bottle was sent for. The children had none of the gin, which was consumed by a party of Cutts’s pals. Keen was fined £2 10s and 17s 6d costs…
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 Stuart Ansell)
(*** Last Orders is a free local newsletter - published by Suffolk CAMRA members since 1978)
