Cliff Brewery

Cliff Brewery

Cliff Brewery, Ipswich

Cliff Brewery, Ipswich
General information
Type Brewery
Location Ipswich, Suffolk
Coordinates 52°02′40″N 1°09′50″E / 52.044522°N 1.163828°ECoordinates: 52°02′40″N 1°09′50″E / 52.044522°N 1.163828°E
Construction started 1746
Designations Grade II

The Cliff Brewery is a Grade II listed former English brewery.

Location

The building is located on Cliff Lane, near the Ipswich wet dock.

History

The business that became Cliff Brewery was started in 1723 ( in Kings Quay Street, Harwich) by Thomas Cobbold and is believed to be the second oldest independent brewery in England. It stood above the quays of the River Orwell at Ipswich, since 1746.

Besides the brewery, there was a building nearby called Cliff House which was the home of John and Elizabeth Cobbold before they moved to live at Holywells Park, Ipswich in 1814. [1]

Cobbold merged with local rival, Tollemache Breweries in 1957 to form Tolly Cobbold. The brewery ceased operations in 2002, when the Tolly Cobbold company merged with Ridley's brewery.[2]

References

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  1. ↑ J. M. Blatchly, ‘Cobbold , Elizabeth (1765–1824)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2014 accessed 15 Jan 2015
  2. ↑ Jacobson, Michael (1973). The Cliff Brewery 1723 - 1973. Tollemache and Cobbold. ISBN 978-0950310404.


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