Real Ale in Cambridgeshire
6th Edition 1980
As a companion to 20 Years On, this is the list of pubs in the
current branch area which were in the 1980 Guide.
In 1980 Ruddles County was a flagship for real ale nationally, with
Ruddles also available in Sainsburys.
Meanwhile Marstons Pedigree, Morlands Old Speckled Hen and Boddingtons Mild and Bitter
were fine regional ales, not yet suffering from the drive to national brands.
Years of closure are indicated thus: [2000]
- Balsham
- Black Bull
- Barrington
- Royal Oak
- Bartlow
- Three Hills
- Barton
- Hoops
- Bottisham
- Bell
- White Swan
- Boxworth
- Golden Ball
- Brandon Creek
- Ship
- Burrough Green
- Bull
- Burwell
- Fox
- Cambridge
- ADC Theatre
- Alma Brewery
- Anchor
- Ancient Druids
[1982] Demolished as part of the Grafton Centre development
- Bakers Arms
- Blackamoor's Head
- Burleigh Arms
- Cambridge Arms
Now the Cambridge Rattle & Hum
- Champion of the Thames
- Chequers, Cherry Hinton
- Churchill
- City Arms
- Coach & Horses Inn
- Cross Keys
- Dewdrop Inn
- Dog & Pheasant, Newmarket Road
Now Taste of Bangladesh restaurant
- Elm Tree
- Five Bells
- Fleur de Lys
- Foresters
[1986] Site redeveloped as a Co-op Bank (at the corner of Burleigh Street and City Road)
- Fort St George in England
- Free Press
- Geldart
- Globe
- Globe Inn, Newmarket Road
- Golden Hind
- Granta
- Grapes
- Great Northern
- Green Dragon
- Greyhound
- Hat & Feathers
- Henekey Tavern
Now Life nightclub, formerly Chicagos
- Hobbs Pavilion
- Hobson's Choice
Now Wilbury's Cocktail Bar
- Jolly Millers
Now the India House restaurant
- Jolly Waterman
- Kelsey Kerridge Sports Hall
- King's Arms
- Little Rose
Now a Loch Fyne restaurant
- Live & Let Live
- Locomotive
- Man On The Moon
- Maypole
- Midland Tavern
- Mill
- Mitre
- Oak
Now Lawyers wine & oyster bar
- Osborne Arms
- Oyster Tavern
- Painted Waggon
Now the Castle, next door to the Regal
- Panton Arms
- Peatling & Cawdron off-licence, 195 Mill Road
- Peatling & Cawdron off-licence, 82-84 Victoria Road
- Pickerel Inn
- Prince Regent
- Queen Edith
- Racehorse
- Red Bull
- Red Cow
- Red Lion
- Rose & Crown, Newmarket Rd.
- Rosemary Branch
- Royal Standard
- Salisbury Arms
- Seven Stars
- Sir Isaac Newton
- Snowcat
- Spade & Becket
- Spread Eagle
- Station Hotel
Replaced by an office block
- Still & Sugarloaf
Now under Marks & Spencers (Market branch)
- Unicorn, Cherry Hinton
- Weathervane
- Cheveley
- Red Lion
- Star & Garter
- Chippenham
- Tharp Arms
- Comberton
- Grapevine
- Conington
- White Swan
- Cottenham
- Chequers
- Waggon & Horses
- White Horse
- Dry Drayton
- Black Horse
- Dullingham
- Boot
- King's Head
- Duxford
- Wheatsheaf
- Ely
- Angel [1996]
- Cutter
- Fountain
- Kings Arms
- Lamb Hotel
- Minster Tavern
- Old Fire Engine House
- Prince Albert
- Rifleman's Arms
- West End House
- White Hart Hotel
- Fen Ditton
- Ancient Shepherds
- Harvest Home
- King's Head
- Plough
- Fenstanton
- Chequers
- Crown & Pipes
- King William IV
- Fowlmere
- Chequers
- Queen's Head
- Swan House Inn
- Fulbourn
- Six Bells
- Girton
- George Inn
- Old Crown
- Grantchester
- Blue Ball
- Green Man
- Great Abington
- Three Tuns Inn
- Great Eversden
- Hoops
- Great Wilbraham
- Carpenters Arms
- Haddenham
- Cherry Tree
- Harlton
- Hare & Hounds
- Harston
- Coach & Horses
- Pemberton Arms
- Haslingfield
- Jolly Brewers [1994]
- Hildersham
- Pear Tree
- Histon & Impington
- Barley Mow
- Boot Inn
- Brook
- King William IV
- Railway Vue
- Rose & Crown
- Horningsea
- Crown & Punchbowl
- Plough & Fleece
- Ickleton
- New Inn
- Red Lion
- Isleham
- Crown
- Red Lion
- Kennett
- Bell Inn
- Linton
- Bell Inn
- Crown Inn
- Dog & Duck
- Littleport
- Black Horse
- Little Shelford
- Prince Regent
- Lode
- Cow & Hare
- Three Horseshoes
- Longstanton
- Black Bull
- Hoops
- Longstowe
- Fox Inn
- Red House
- Three Horseshoes
- Madingley
- Three Horseshoes
- Melbourn
- Dolphin
- Star
- Milton
- Jolly Brewers
- Waggon & Horses
- White Horse
- Newton
- Queen's Head
- Oakington
- New Inn
- Over
- Admiral Vernon
- Exhibition
- Poplar Farm Inn
- Papworth Everard
- Kisby's Hut
- Rampton
- Black Horse
- Reach
- Dyke's End
- Sawston
- Black Bull
- Woolpack
- Saxon Street
- Reindeer
- Soham
- Carpenter's Arms
- Cherry Tree
- Stapleford
- Longbow
- Rose
- Tree
- Stow-cum-Quy
- Prince Albert [1996]
- White Swan
- Stretham
- Red Lion
- Sutton
- Brook House [1997]
- Sutton Gault
- Anchor
- Swaffham Bulbeck
- Black Horse
- Royal Oak
- Thriplow
- Green Man
- Waterbeach
- Slap-Up
- Star
- Sun Inn
- Weston Colville
- Fox & Hounds [1997]
- West Wickham
- White Horse
- Whittlesford
- Red Lion Hotel
- Tickell Arms
- Wicken
- Maid's Head
- Willingham
- Milkmaid [1999]
- Three Tuns
- White Hart
- Witchford
- Shoulder of Mutton
"For the future"
Pubs then expected to stock real ale during the life of the Guide
- Bar Hill
- Fox [2000]
- Cambridge
- Bath
- County Arms
- Grantchester
- Red Lion
- Rupert Brook
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