Thorpe Morieux

In 1550 William Risbie, a clothier from the Suffolk town of Lavenham, travelled to Thorpe Morieux, a village three miles away where he acquired the manor. He built a house — Thorpe Morieux Hall — using mostly new materials but incorporating some of ...

Thorpe Morieux Parish Council had hoped to run the pub, and local residents wanted to buy it for £200,000 and spend £50,000 on renovations. Against that background Miss Gibson challenged district council's relisting decision before a First Tier ...

In 2007, Carol Gibson bought the Bull Inn in Thorpe Morieux, but she says she 'never recovered' after the recession and became 'crippled' by a large mortgage. She also claims she received little support from villagers and regularly had to 'throw beer ...

Thorpe Morieux Parish Council has recommended the change of use be refused, saying it believes the pub has been described as a bric-a-brac shop named The Bull Inn a China Shop in 'an effort to circumnavigate planning requirements designed to protect ...

Harold was born at Hill Farm, Thorpe Morieux in 1921. He was schooled at Thorpe and at the Grammar school in Bury St Edmunds before attending Writtle Agricultural College. He joined his father at Strutt and Parker Farms, Thorpe Morieux as assistant ...

The owners of the Bull Inn in Thorpe Morieux, near Bury St Edmunds, applied to Babergh District Council last year to amend planning permission that meant the neighbouring The Old Orchard could only be occupied by someone employed at the pub.