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Site of The Ipswich Arms	Picture source: Darkstar
The Ipswich Arms was situated on the Market Place. This pub has now been demolished and replaced by retail units/flats.
From The Essex Standard, 11th January 1834
Jas. Nelson, Ann Gale, and Catherine Evans, were tried for stealing a £5 Bank of England note and 5 sovereigns. from the person of Ellis Owen, a Welsh drover, at Ingatestone Fair. The prosecutor not being able to Speak English, was interpreted by Maurice Jones, also a Welshman. It appeared that whilst the prosecutor was standing near the Ipswich Arms, the prisoner Nelson knocked him down with a stick, and Gale, coming up, put her band into his pocket and pulled out the money. The note was afterwards found sewn in her sleeve. There being no evidence against Evans she was acquitted. Nelson and Gale were found guilty,and ordered to be transported for 7 years.
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