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Rumburgh Buck
Rumburgh Buck
East, 52.38056,1.44454
Cask 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 and 2024. 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).
Online beer list available at Real Ale Finder.
The inn and the parish church were formerly part of a Benedictine priory.
Facilities
- Beer festivals: Twice yearly
- 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
Historical interest
The pub is shown on this old OS map from about 1903 (interactive map)
Owner/operator: free
Splendid, characterful pub; originally the guesthouse for the mediaeval priory. Long narrow front bar and games room. Tastefully extended back rooms and non-smoking dining room. A regular GBG entry.
Beers: Adnams Bitter; Greene King IPA; guest beer (independents & micros).CAMRA's 1997 Suffolk Real Ale Guide
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…
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)