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Ye Old Bell & Steelyard Inn, Woodbridge
Woodbridge
IP12 1DZ
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Danny O'Revey left this review about Ye Old Bell & Steelyard Inn
Comfy old inn with beams and wooden floor, very olde worlde pub
On 1st October 2018
- rating: 8
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Blackthorn _ left this review about Ye Old Bell & Steelyard Inn
A very attractive half-timbered pub just off the Market Square, it has an unusual hoist protruding at one end of the building which presumably dates from the time when it was a steel yard.
Internally it’s quite traditional, with black inset timberwork in the walls and a deep salmon paintwork elsewhere, along with a mixture of quarry tiling, wood strip and carpet on the floors. An old fire-place had a number of horse brasses tacked up above it and a dresser in one corner housed a selection of old crockery. There was even a bunch of hops hanging from the ceiling as well as a number of nautical pictures and a large beer barrel for resting your pint on. Some chunky timber supporting posts formed a partition to a snug to the right had a further brick fire-place at the rear although I’m not sure if this was actually used.
It seemed very quiet in there on a recent Monday evening visit, and I thought a bit of background music would have helped to just lift the atmosphere a little. Food is offered and looked to be of the basic “pub grub” genre, although we did not try it ourselves.
Beers on tap were Springhead Roaring Meg, Oakham Inferno and Betty Stogs. Ciders were unusually well represented for this neck of the woods with Aspall’s Suffolk, Lime Bay Driftwood and Old Rosie.
On 6th July 2016
- rating: 7
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Old Boots left this review about Ye Old Bell & Steelyard Inn
Mediaeval building with an outsize weighting device at one end – the Steelyard. Multiroom layout modified to be more open plan by removing part of some walls. Three main areas, with an opened out room to the right used for dining, the main, slightly loungey, bar in the middle and refered to as “the Weighmans Room”. A public bar style games area with darts and bar billards forms the third part of the pub. A service corridor runs the width of the rear, giving access to toilets and garden, and might used for vertical drinking in busy times. Decoration and style much as you would expect for old half timbered pubs, playing very much to the charms of this type of building. There are exposed beams, quarry tiles and bare boards, some old local adverts for sporting goods, and internal half timbering. The only anachronistic note is the big screen. Well kept beers from Greene King on five handpumps plus a normal keg range with nothing unusual in its make up.
On 24th March 2010
- no rating submitted
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john mcgraw left this review about Ye Old Bell & Steelyard Inn
The strange looking contraption on the side of the pub was used to weigh carts before and after loading ready for transport on the river
On 27th July 2008
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