android appShotley Bristol Arms
opening hours
- Mon-Thu: 1130-1500, 1800-2300
- Fri-Sat: 1130-2400
- Sun: 1200-2230
food times
- Mon-Fri: 1200-1500, 1800-2130
- Sat: 1200-2200
- Sun: 1200-2100
guest beers
This pub serves 2 guest ales.
Local licensing authority for Shotley is Babergh
CAMRA Ipswich & East Suffolk branch.
last updated Oct 19th, 2021.
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Shotley Bristol Arms
South West, 51.95557,1.26774
Real Ale is sold here.
Bristol Hill, IP9 1PU
grid reference TM 246 336
riverside bar / diner
owner/operator: Punch Taverns
A large prominent pub with lovely river views across to Parkston Quay and Felixstowe docks.
The menu includes gluten-free & diabetic foods. Parties, wedding groups and wakes welcomed by arrangement - see the pub website for details.
There is a toilet accessible to disabled customers.
Facilities
Accessible to disabled customers
Beer garden or other outside drinking area
Beer served through handpumps
Bus stop nearby (see transport links for details)
Camping or caravan site nearby: (close to the pub)
Evening meals
Family friendly
Lunchtime meals (not just snacks)
Parking
Quiet pub - no electronic games, piped music or jukebox
Restaurant or separate dining area
Separate bar
Traditional pub games available
Gallery
Nearest railway station
Ipswich: 10.2 miles (16.4km)Other nearby Suffolk pubs
Shipwreck 0.36 mile
Rose 1.17 miles
Dooley 2.1 miles
Owl & Pussycat 2.6 miles
Mariners Freehouse 2.8 miles
Dolphin 2.9 milesHistorical interest
The pub is shown on this old OS map from about 1902 (interactive map)
John Stevens, mariner late of Ipswich, Bristol Arms, Shotley Gate, takes this opportunity to inform his friends and the public in general, that he, having taken the above Inn, begs to solicit a share of their favours and patronage, assuring them that nothing on his part will be wanting to afford that care and accommodation more especially in the ferry department to and from Harwich.Ipswich Journal, January 1840**
The Bristol Arms, ShotleyBernard Hugh Firman, first became a publican in 1928, when he took over the Butt & Oyster (see above). Five years later, he went to the Emporer Inn, Norwich Road, Ipswich and in 1939, he came to the Bristol Arms…
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)
(*** historic book information from Bob Mitchell)
(*** Last Orders is a free local newsletter - published by Suffolk CAMRA memers since 1978)
