Award Success for the Rumburgh Buck

An east Suffolk village pub is celebrating after winning another award.

The Rumburgh Buck - near Halesworth, was voted 2024 Overall Pub of the Year by the north east Suffolk Campaign for Real Ale - or CAMRA.

The award was presented to pub managers Stella and Tyrone Cattermole on Saturday - and follows winning two other Campaign for Real Ale awards in 2023 and 2022.

Stella and Tyrone Cattermole, managers of The Rumburgh Buck near Halesworth, Suffolk, were presented with a fourth ‘outstanding pub’ award on Saturday 20th April.

The pub, which hit national news following a visit by global superstar Ed Sheeran last November, has been voted 2024 Overall Pub of The Year by members of North East Suffolk CAMRA (Campaign for Real Ale) having won two CAMRA awards in 2023 and another in 2022. 

Stella Cattermole took on the pub in 2019, just 6 months before Covid hit and all pubs were forced to close, while her husband continued to work as a butcher at Cleveleys, a local food business, helping in the pub at the weekends. He now works full time as the pub’s cook. 

The Rumburgh Buck is the first pub that the couple have managed. “It’s really exciting, to be recognised four times” said Mrs Cattermole, who had a career in Marketing before taking on the  pub, in 2019, adding “It’s a big achievement for us.”  

Local customers Stuart & Joanne Cullen, owners of nearby Oasis Barn Holidays, enjoy meeting friends and neighbours at the pub.  “It’s so friendly and welcoming” said Mrs Cullen, “I feel safe going there on my own.”  

Many thanks to Jez Donaldson for their help in producing this article,