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The pub started out as a country inn, located just by a toll-gate which stood at the top of Bolton Lane. Visitors to Ipswich were charged a toll for their carriages and carts. However, many farmers avoided the fee by stabling their horses at the stables provided by the Woolpack, with their vehicles parked in Westerfield or Tuddenham Road. [3]
There have been a large number of pubs in Ipswich. The term covers a number of different sorts of public houses , including coaching inns , beerhouses , taverns hotels and alehouses . [ 1 ] : 3 However, many of the distinctions which existed between these words have sometimes been lost as the terms became blurred.
The 1689 list of pubs in Ipswich was a seventeenth century list of inns and taverns in the Borough of Ipswich and surrounding areas. The list identified 24 pubs according to their parish . The largest number were to be found in the St Mary le Tower Parish. [ 1 ]
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The Margaret Catchpole is a pub in Cliff Lane, Ipswich in Suffolk, England. It is named after Margaret Catchpole , a servant of Elizabeth and John Cobbold of the Tolly Cobbold brewery. Built in 1936 by the local architect Harold Ridley Hooper for the Cobbold brewery, it is a Grade II* listed building. [ 1 ]
References to the Falcon go back to August 1728 when the Ipswich Journal announced a shooting competition at "the sign of the Falcon" in St Nicholas Parish, Ipswich. [2] During the eighteenth century, John Curtis has been identified as running the pub, moving there from the Cock and Pye, Ipswich in 1743. He died the next year and John Osborn ...
Ipswich was from its earliest days an important transit stop, and High Street was the location of its inns for travelers. It was also where courts met when judges rode the circuit. In the 18th century small industrial shops also populated the street, and some of these led to the building of larger textile firms elsewhere.