The County Of Suffolk, Ipswich - pub details
Address: 29 St Helens Street, Ipswich, Suffolk, IP4 1HH [map] [gmap]
Tel: 0871 951 1000 (ref 28677) - calls cost 10p per minute plus network extras
Ipswich (0.9 miles), Derby Road - Ipswich (1.1 miles), Westerfield (1.8 miles)
Pub suggested by apa on 8 Apr 2006
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> Current user rating: 7.9/10 (rated by 8 users)
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| On recent investigation, the County is offering an increasing range of decent beers. On sale at moment are Woodefordes Norfolk Wherry, St Judes Brewery, and Crouch Vale Brewers Gold, as well as Kronenbourg, Carlsberg and Fosters. They also sell a selection of Bottled ciders. My tip... ask what they have on tap. It's sometimes rather hidden! blkstar14 - 7 Aug 2010 18:02 |
| Just re-opened after being shut for several months. One of the nicest pubs in Ipswich but needs a confidence boost of some new drinkers to get it going again, after a less than friendly landlord. New people are friendly and accommodating and sell some decent beers. Would recommend a visit. blkstar14 - 4 Jul 2010 18:56 |
| Has just reopened as a freehouse after many months of closure (quite why Scottish and Newcastle bought this pub from Adnams only to leave it closed and then sell it off again is one of life's mysteries). Several real ales on offer as well a big TVs showing the world cup, but at present the interior smells of fresh paint and there's no food as yet.The new owners will have to deal with the fact that Adnams inflicted a very unwise refurbishment on this pub before offloading it- as the picture shows it looks like an enormous wedding cake. edchambers - 13 Jun 2010 21:14 |
| Recently bought by Scottish & Newcastle Pub Enterprises and on the lease market at the moment. Clivers - 27 Oct 2008 19:21 |
| According to CAMRA's newsletter, this pub has been sold off to a company called Elizabeth Ryan Inns. Their name seems to be something of a misnomer since their sole intention, according to the newsletter, is to close the pub down and make a fast buck by turning it into flats. The County is/was one of a group of 7 pubs standing quite close together in a residential part of east Ipswich- the only place where such a density of pubs survived. It's loss will mean 4 of these pubs have gone in just a couple of years- two for flats, one permanently boarded up and one transformed into a 'brasserie'. A 5th- the Duke of York- is also under threat, since like the County it has been sold off by Adnams. We are now within measurable distance in Ipswich of having no pubs left away from the town centre. 15 years ago there were around 80 community pubs in the town- a quarter of these have since gone. The rate of closure is accelerating and we are now losing 3 or 4 pubs a year- you don't have to be a mathematical genius to realise that unless something changes drastically all the pubs will be gone in 20 years or so. The only thing that can change is the policy of our planners- at the moment every closure application is waved through on the nod, with the result that the vultures are circling round our pub estate in search of a quick profit from change to residential use. Unfortunately our local CAMRA branch seems totally apathetic about these closures, despite the fact that as the pubs go real ale will go with them. edchambers - 16 Mar 2008 22:11 |
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