android appUpper Layham Marquis
opening hours
- Mon-Sat: 0900-2300
- Sun: 1100-2200
food times
- Mon-Sat: 0900-2300
- Sun: 1100-2200
guest beers
This pub serves 2 guest ales.
listed building grade II
Upper Layham is part of the Layham parish.
Local licensing authority for Upper Layham is Babergh
CAMRA Ipswich & East Suffolk branch.
last updated Jun 7th, 2020.
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Upper Layham Marquis
formerly Marquis of Cornwallis
Real Ale is sold here.
The Street, IP7 5JZ
grid reference TM 037 404
bar / diner, opened 16th century
A 17th century roadside inn with various small rooms that overlooks the Brett valley. Part of the building was once a bakery which has been incorporated into the current structure.
Extensively renovated and extended between 2014 and 2016, the pub now also includes a sizeable hotel with 10 letting rooms. Various function rooms and outdoor seating areas.
Facilities
Beer garden or other outside drinking area
Evening meals
Function room available to hire
Lunchtime meals (not just snacks)
Parking
Real fire
WiFi available
Gallery
Nearest railway station
Manningtree: 7.6 miles (12.2km)
Queen's Head 0.53 mile
George 1.41 miles
Cock 1.46 miles
Battlebury's at the King's Head 1.51 miles
Eight Bells 1.56 miles
Queen's Head 2.5 milesHistorical interest
The pub is shown on this old OS map from about 1902 (interactive map)
A former coaching inn.
To be sold by auction, the household furniture and other effects of Mr Robert Barttram, who is leaving the Marquis of Cornwallis, at Layham, Suffolk, comprising 4-post, and other bedsteads and hangings, 3 featherbeds, blankets and quilts, mahogany ad other chairs, mahogany dining, Pembroke, tea, and other tables, pier and dressing glasses, handsome mahogany double chest of drawers, wainscot bureau, handsome 30 hour clock in neat wainscot case, china, glass, and earthenware, breeding sow, 12 pigs, 20 turkeys, with a variety of other articles.Ipswich Journal, October 1815**
Mr John Moss, landlord of the Marquis of Cornwallis, Upper Layham won a national award for providing the warmest welcome in Suffolk…
Landlords
(Most pub, location & historic details collated by Nigel, Tony or Keith - original sources are credited)
(** historic newspaper information from Stuart Ansell)
(*** historic newspaper information from Bob Mitchell)
