Public Houses in Woodbridge From 1839 to the Present

Name Sometime named    Street Earliest mention Year Closed
Anchor The Station Hotel   19 Quay Street 1712 still open
Angel The Black Boy   2 Theatre Street 1598 still open
Bay Horse     98 Castle Street 1844 1960
Bell and Steelyard The Fox, The Three Goats,  The Steelyard   103 New Street 1617 still open
Boat The Ferry Boat   22 Quayside 1585 1957
Brickmakers Arms Free Trade Tavern   71 Seckford Street 1844 1909
Bull The Pyed Bull, The Black Bull   2 Market Hill 1642 still open
Castle     28 Church Street 1850 1950?
Cherry Tree     73 Cumberland Street 1712 still open
Cock and Pie     78 New Street   1911
Cross The Red Cross   2 Church Street 1652 2012?
Crown Crown Tavern   43 Thoroughfare 1633 still open
Gardners Arms Coopers Arms   Market Hill   1906/7
Golden Lion     23 Market Hill    
Grapes     3 North Hill 1853 1921/1937
Half Moon Half Moon and Star   45 Cumberland Street   1920
Horse Shoes The Horse and Groom    68 Cumberland Street   1937
Kings Arms Roger's Cross   47 Thoroughfare pre 1743 1970
Kings Head     17 Market Hill 1617 still open
Maltsers Arms Stannon Inn   Station Road 1863 1963
Mariner’s Arms Snipe's Fen   26 New Street   still open
Plough and Sail The Plough   29/30 Bredfield Street    
Prince of Wales The Swan, The White Swan   13 Market Hill C16  1924/5
Queens Head The Mariners   70 Seckford Street pre 1692 1957
Red Lion Lion   90 Thoroughfare pre 1604 still open
Royal Oak     17 Thoroughfare  1791 1936
Royal William     4 Theatre Street 1844 1973
Saddler Arms     39/41 Castle Street   1907
Seckford Arms     76 Seckford Street 1881 ? 2010
Ship     5 Quayside 1601 1910
Sun Hotel  (Sun  Inn) The Three Tuns   102 Thoroughfare   1972
Tankard The Case in Altered   50 New Street   1905
Wagon and Horses The Rose and Crown, Carpenters Arms   1 Bredfield Street   1996
Wellington The Volunteer, The Shoulder of Mutton    20 Cumberland Street   1930
White Horse The George   11 Market Hill   1907
     

Public Houses excluded for the above List

 

Two public houses have been excluded from this list because they are near the outskirts of the town and were both established comparatively recently.

 

Shortly after the Second World War an estate of council houses was built either side of the parish boundary between Woodbridge and Melton.  The estate was along two new roads, Warwick Avenue and Edwin Avenue.  As well as the houses there were also four retail units and in 1958 one of these became a public house called The Warwick.   The name has changed several times since.

 

  

 

 

 

 

From 1804 to 1815 there was a large barracks on the outskirts of the town for 4000 troops involved in the Napoleonic War.  To provide them with entertainment a public house, The Duke of York, was build adjacent to the barracks but it was demolished along with the barracks in 1815.  A new public house was eventually built on the site of the old one in 2000.  It was initially called The Seal but the name was eventually changed to the Duke of York.

 
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