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There has been at least one pub in the village for several hundred years but now only one remains - The Walpole Arms

Walpole Arms sign

The Walpole Arms has its own website - the link to it is on our Links & Ads page
The telephone number is 01263 587258


5th August 2005
5th August 2005

Rear beer garden 5th August 2005 Rear beer garden 5th August 2005
Rear beer garden 5th August 2005

Front beer garden 5th August 2005
Front beer garden 5th August 2005

It is rumoured that an old pub known as The Artichoke was once in the Big Yard and Robert Lee (village ratcatcher) kept a beerhouse on the Wolterton Road next door to where the Methodist chapel was later built. Locals have often been known to call the Walpole Arms by the name Artichokes.

In 1836 White's Directory lists Robert Lee - rat catcher and beerhouse. (Henry Smith was at the Walpole Arms.) Robert Lee married Ann Ulph in Itteringham 29th July 1822. She had two children before marriage - Amy, baptised Itteringham 26 March 1820 and Dennis, baptised Itteringham 23 June 1822.

In 1854 the Post Office was based at the pub.

Post Office at Mr. Wm. Wall's. Letters arrive at 11.15 a.m., and are despatched at 3 p.m.
White's Directory - 1854


The 1914 pub quoits team
The 1914 pub quoits team

c.1920
Landlord Sid Wilch (left) and friends c.1920

My Dad also worked at and ran the mill and he had a fish round. He would call the horse from the orchard but he wouldn't come so he would yell "Edith!" Mother would come and she would call "Jack!" and he'd come trotting over and Dad would put the harness on him. He would drive to the train station at Aylsham to get the fish.
Joan (Nellie) Hall née Wilch - 20th November 2007

An aerial view taken in the 1960s
An aerial view taken in the 1960s

7th April 1995 13th May 2000
7th April 1995
13th May 2000

Aerial 30th July 1999 Aerial 4th September 2004
Walpole Arms (bottom left) and the Mill 30th July 1999
4th September 2004

South Erpingham Licence Register 1925 - 1942 - Walpole Arms

renovation work 14th June 2001 renovation work 15th June 2001
During renovation work 14th June 2001
During renovation work 15th June 2001

Closed for renovation 14th June 2001
Closed for renovation 14th June 2001

Pub named among the best in Britain

ITTERINGHAM: The Walpole Arms
has been named among one of the 10 best gastropubs in Britain - and the best in the east of England - in the Mail on Sunday.
Restaurant critic Tom Parker Bowles praised the pub for its food and own Walpole ale in an article entitled Best Bar None.
Co-owner Richard Bryan said it was great to gain further national recognition, having been named as the central England gastropub of the year by the Morning Advertiser licensed trade paper in 2005.
Eastern Daily Press - September 2007



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