The Four Horseshoes

United Kingdom , Suffolk
EYE, Wickham Rd Thornham Magna
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75 reviews shown

10/10

Exceptional

06 Mar 2026

Margaret

Excellent parking, loads of space, the property was cosy and friendly, staff excellent, very comfortable bedroom.
Super evening meal, and breakfast, would recommend The Four Horseshoes.

Partner

10/10

Exceptional

16 Feb 2026

Matt

Fantastic! Great staff, lovely clean room. Wonderful breakfast!

Leisure Partner

10/10

Exceptional

03 Feb 2026

Alan

Great as usual

10/10

Exceptional

30 Jan 2026

Tristan

Clean and comfy room. Staff friendly and helpful. Fantastic meal. Very squeaky room floorboards!

8/10

Excellent

19 Nov 2025

Robert

Friendly staff, good menu choice, good beer.

Business

10/10

Exceptional

30 Sep 2025

STEPHEN W

Have stayed a number of times over about 10 years or so - is consistently good.
Staff are always friendly and helpful, food is excellent and very good local beer is available.
The rooms are small but do what is needed and have always been clean.
This is a proper traditional country pub and we need more of them!

Self

10/10

Exceptional

24 Sep 2025

Kevin

Excellent room which had been newly refurbished.
Super friendly and helpful staff throughout our stay.
Really lovely breakfast which was piping hou and plentiful!!

Leisure Partner

10/10

Exceptional

14 Sep 2025

John

welcoming, picturesque and comfortable

Self

10/10

Exceptional

07 Sep 2025

Tracey

Excellent clean room highly recommend

Friends_and_family Family

10/10

Exceptional

16 Aug 2025

Sarah

Very friendly and hospitable staff . Value for money

Leisure Family

10/10

Exceptional

16 Jul 2025

Lynda

Relaxing and comfortable stay

The room was clean and comfortable, not at all noisy. We had dinner in the restaurant which was delicious and very reasonably priced. The team at the Four Horseshoes were friendly and very helpful. Breakfast was very good too, large portions and a big pot of tea. We had a really relaxing break.

Partner

10/10

Exceptional

06 Jul 2025

Jonathan

What an excellent country pub. We have a lovely steak meal and used the garden to sit outside and have a drink before retiring to our room. The staff were welcoming, attentive and friendly.Breakfast was well cooked and very enjoyable.
Our room was lovely and clean but the toilet flush didn’t work as well as it should.
Overall we had lovely meals and a great stay made better by the welcoming friendly and attentive staff

Leisure Partner

8/10

Excellent

02 Jul 2025

Harold

The food was outstanding, tasty, well presented and good proportions. The experience over was lovely. I found the roof height rather low and banged my head more than enough times on the low roof beams. There are signs all over saying watch your head, but when looking down to mis the beams and another even lower one comes up, well I must say, I had a head banging time :)

Business Self

10/10

Exceptional

12 Jun 2025

Andrew

Amazing staff and food. The breakfast is exceptional!

Business

10/10

Exceptional

01 Jun 2025

Mark

You won’t be disappointed.

A very enjoyable stay at The Four Horseshoes. Set in the quiet countryside.
Our room was clean and had all the facilities we needed.
Tom the landlord runs the place like a well oiled machine. Bravo sir!
The staff were very hardworking and friendly. Cathy, Tracy and Grace looked after us and we had a particularly good banter relationship with Tracy.
The food was excellent and the beer garden was a relaxing haven for us.
We highly recommend this pub.

Partner

10/10

Exceptional

30 May 2025

Faiez

Grreat place for a quite break

10/10

Exceptional

06 Apr 2025

Hailea

Lovely stay, tasty food, friendly & attentive staff. Beautiful clean room. Will definitely stay again. Highly recommend the sticky toffee pudding!

Leisure Partner

10/10

Exceptional

24 Mar 2025

David

1 night business trip

Adequate parking. Food very good. Wi Fi acceptable. Room comfortable
Service excellent

Business

10/10

Exceptional

22 Mar 2025

Ionut

Grate quality at good price

Business Family

10/10

Exceptional

02 Feb 2025

Sivan

Excellent food and quiet stay. Friendly staff

10/10

Exceptional

08 Dec 2024

michala

Cosy stay

Everything about it amazing. Dinner, breakfast and stay excellent. Friendly staff and clean rooms. Cosy pub. Brilliant

Friends_and_family Family

10/10

Exceptional

25 Nov 2024

Benjamin

We booked late, turned up to a warm welcome, we were shown to our rooms, which were clean and comfortable, we loved the age and atmosphere.
We also enjoyed dinner there and were well looked after

Business

10/10

Exceptional

12 Oct 2024

Aaron

Great place to stay with a lot of character and history.

Leisure Partner

10/10

Exceptional

26 Sep 2024

David

Belated review for our 2 night stay in August. Room was Ok but breakfast and evening meal were excellent. Lady who served us breakfast was very nice and helpful.

Leisure

10/10

Exceptional

16 Sep 2024

Paul

Wow,where do i start,great pub/restaurant,staff where amazing,food was awesome and would recommend it to everyone,staff were truly amazing,polite and made me smile,especially Tracy who recommended that i should have four meat roast and i said two meat would be ample who which it was,would definitely stay there again and already planning next trip to there,every member of staff go above and beyond and made our trip there even more memorable,thank you

10/10

Exceptional

02 Sep 2024

pauline

Quiet with all options to dine and drink

Leisure Family

10/10

Exceptional

25 Aug 2024

Barry

The Four Horseshoes is a lovely pub/hotel that does really good food with staff that bend over backwards to help make your stay one to remember.

Partner

10/10

Exceptional

18 Aug 2024

Monica

The staff were very attentive, nothing was too much trouble, Terri was amazing very knowledgeable and friendly. I liked how you automatically had a reserved table if you were staying over . The food and accommodation were perfect.

Leisure Partner

8/10

Excellent

05 Aug 2024

Julie

It was a quaint old pub and very convenient location. The staff were really polite, friendly and helpful.

10/10

Exceptional

04 Aug 2024

John

It was off the main road, so away from noise. The Staff were all very friendly & helpful.

Business_and_leisure Self

8/10

Excellent

02 Aug 2024

Andy

Eye!! Eye!!

A single overnight stay (with breakfast). Quaint well appointed hotel, with easy access to bedrooms via the beer garden. Polite welcoming staff. Only criticism was our evening meal was on the cold side. Chef didn’t apologise and offered a free dessert.

Partner

10/10

Exceptional

21 Jul 2024

Alan

Beautiful old thatched property in rural Suffolk. It is meticulously maintained by the staff, who are unfailingly friendly and welcoming. Lovely Bar and Restaurant serving hearty breakfasts and an excellent daytime/dinner menu.

Leisure Friends

10/10

Exceptional

07 Jul 2024

Samantha

5 star staff!

We stayed here for one night whilst doing the National Road Rally on our motorbikes and arrived aching and soaking wet after 300 miles of rain.

Area - the pub is in a really quiet, lovely village.

Parking - Plenty of free parking on a gravel (but well compacted) car park opposite the pub.

Staff - Management seem to have got their recruitment spot on as every member of staff we came across from check in to serving food were so friendly, helpful and always had a smile!

Food - Both dinner and breakfast were great. I'm both gluten and dairy intolerant...they have a menu for both, so I had plenty of choice and they even have a separate gluten free fryer. I didn't get ill, so they must be pretty good at food segregation in the kitchen and the food even came out with little GF / DF flags which was very reassuring.

The room - this is where it went downhill a bit. Bathroom was great with a big bath with a shower over. Tea and coffee supplied in the room and even a bottle of water each. There was also a large standing fan in the room.
However, the room smelled like there was cigarette smoke in the fabric of the room (certainly not recent smoke, but like it was ingrained). All my clothes have had to go in the wash since I got home. The bed had a lovely topper on it, but the mattress was long past changing as it dipped really badly and gave us both a bad back.

If they sorted those two things, I'd have said it was the perfect stay.

10/10

Exceptional

03 Jul 2024

Dave

This was the second time I stayed here, the staff are very friendly and helpful the chef even came in early one day so I could have breakfast. The food is outstanding and the service is 2nd to none.

Business

8/10

Excellent

01 Jul 2024

David

staff were exceptional.

Partner

10/10

Exceptional

29 Jun 2024

Lin

Staff were excellent, no issues but rooms very dated and tired. We did, however, enjoy our stay.

Leisure Partner

6/10

Pleasant

25 Jun 2024

Chris

Nice location and convenient parking, single room was very small for the price, breakfast very good

Business Self

10/10

Exceptional

16 Jun 2024

David

If you want a traditional pub stay with proper home cooking then stay here.

Leisure Family

10/10

Exceptional

07 May 2024

STEPHEN W

Have stated a few times before over a number of years - always good - a proper village pub with excellent service, food and beer - I intend to continue staying here when in the area.

Self

10/10

Exceptional

03 May 2024

Bowie

Great pub and had its Old charm which we liked. The staff were all so lovely.

Leisure Family

10/10

Exceptional

25 Apr 2024

Louise

Lovely food, friendly staff.

Partner

10/10

Exceptional

21 Apr 2024

B'Anne

Excellent staff.

Leisure Friends

10/10

Exceptional

01 Apr 2024

Steve

4 horseshoe excellent

Was a last minute find as the place we had booked had closed down so i looked and found this gem of a place definitely recommended to anyone especially if you have a dog 🐕 as its a dog friendly place. Food was amazing and drinks was good too.. all round excellent 👌 👏 👍

Partner

6/10

Pleasant

06 Mar 2024

Henry

The property was lovely oldie worldie
Staff were very friendly
Roast dinner let it down was worst I’ve ever had

Leisure Partner

10/10

Exceptional

05 Feb 2024

T A

The staff are wonderful,so attentive,always greeting with a smile.ambience,perfect in pub.perfect stay.

10/10

Exceptional

25 Oct 2023

Philip

99 % excellent 👌

On the plus side, warm friendly atmosphere, nice happy staff in a beautiful pub ,a great pleasure being there for 2 nights. The minus is room 27 above the gents with a noisy air hand dryer going off every few minutes in the evening.

Partner

10/10

Exceptional

02 Oct 2023

STEPHEN W

Have stayed several times over about 6 years - always good food and beer and friendly efficient staff - lovely location - a proper traditional English pub - I recognised local customers from previous stays so they keep coming back as well.
I would highly recommend.

Self

8/10

Excellent

01 Oct 2023

Martin

Proper Pub

Lovely Pub. Nice welcome. Very clean. Mixed opinions on food, some really good, some less so. Would stay again.

Partner

10/10

Exceptional

24 Sep 2023

Linda

First class

Everything about our stay was first class. All the staff without exception were very welcoming and friendly and could not do enough for us to make our stay enjoyable. The food was also a very high standard. Would highly recommend.

Partner

6/10

Pleasant

06 Sep 2023

swee kim

Beautiful property with very friendly staff. They were great with my kids.

The beds are rather old and the sofa bed provided was not comfortable for my kids.

10/10

Exceptional

19 Aug 2023

Pauline

Smashing pub

Lovely old pub (low beams!) with really friendly staff.

Partner

10/10

Exceptional

20 Jul 2023

Luca

Enjoyed my stay. Everybody very friendly and helpful.

10/10

Exceptional

10 Jul 2023

Sally

Would recommend it to anyone it was comfortable clean the food was excellent and staff great

Partner

10/10

Exceptional

26 Jun 2023

Rose

The staff were friendly and helpful. My room was clean with tea coffee and water. The windows opened wide which was great as it was very hot. A fan was provided in the room. There was lots o choice for breakfast though a muesli or bran flakes would have been nice. Times for evening meals were flexible and the menu was good. Even birthday cake and happy birthday sung !

Leisure Self

10/10

Exceptional

19 Jun 2023

STEPHEN W

Stayed here twice before, for a bike event, wanting somewhere relaxing to rest after event with good food and a few well earned beers - has hit the spot on each occasion. Traditional pub in a lovely setting, friendly staff and good beer - what more could you want!

Self

10/10

Exceptional

17 Jun 2023

Grace

Beautiful Pub, Great Stay.

Beautiful pub, in a lovely area. Staff were very friendly and accommodating and went above and beyond to assist. Would definitely stay again.

Friends_and_family Family

10/10

Exceptional

02 Jun 2023

Mike

A Real Gem

A wonderful stay was had at this place which offers so much charm. My room had everything I needed and the shower was just right after a long day. Nearby are the Thornham Walks which provided a tranquil and very scenic route which covered over 4km so I got me steps in.
With the location being relatively remote, I decided on eating there and was not disappointed in the slightest. The three course meal was of a high quality but very reasonably priced, as was the breakfast the next morning.
The staff were all very courteous and helpful and made me fell very welcome

Business

10/10

Exceptional

27 May 2023

Rita

A good peaceful stay with excellent helpful staff...thank you!

Leisure Partner

10/10

Exceptional

21 May 2023

Anna

Unique, quirky pub, fabulous food. We stayed and our room was superb. Oozed character, all original features including slanted floors. All added to the charm of the place. Staff were friendly and hugely attentive. Would definitely return.

Leisure Partner

8/10

Excellent

18 Feb 2023

Luke

Banging Breaky

Cosy place, lovely staff, beautiful bar area and a cracking breakfast.

Business

10/10

Exceptional

20 Jan 2023

John

Room comfortable, food good,
Staff efficient and friendly.
Nothing to dislike

Leisure Partner

10/10

Exceptional

15 Dec 2022

Antony

The best pub-hotel!

Delighted to stay here again. Landlord Tom and his team make this a very welcoming, friendly and relaxing place to stay and / or have a meal. Even though it’s popular and can be busy for meals I’ve never known it feel crowded or the staff less than cheerful and helpful. If your staying here there’s always a table for you but if not it’s probably best to book ahead. The rooms are comfortable and nicely kept (room 21 is our favourite), serviced each morning. The Four Horseshoes is a delightful old timber framed building in a quiet spot with country walks on the doorstep. There’s easy access to the A140, the nearby town of Eye is charming and Thornham Magna itself is well placed for exploring the Suffolk countryside and towns. All in all just about the best pub-hotel I know! Looking forward to visiting it again.

Partner

10/10

Exceptional

12 Oct 2022

Lee

Excellent hotel. Very welcoming.

Business

10/10

Exceptional

08 Oct 2022

Lee

Relaxing stay, excellent accommodation restaurant and bar.

Business

10/10

Exceptional

04 Oct 2022

Lee

Lovely accommodation and bar/restaurant. All staff very welcoming.

Business

6/10

Pleasant

27 Sep 2022

Gary

No housekeeping

Four night stay Thursday to Monday, all good the first night and Friday morning but after that no housekeeping at all. Had to get loo roll by asking at the bar, buy our own soap and shower gel, tea bags etc. Mentioned all this at checkout and was kindly given a free bottle of wine, but would have really preferred the room servicing!

Partner

10/10

Exceptional

25 Sep 2022

Iris

A lovely country pub with friendly staff.

An excellent public house, happy friendly staff and excellent standard of food served at both breakfast and in the restaurant if dining in.
Ideal location for visiting both inland and coastal resorts .
Will definitely visit again in the near future.

Partner

10/10

Exceptional

12 Sep 2022

Ken

Brilliant stay

Spent one night to celebrate my wife’s birthday. We received exceptional service from friendly staff that, despite being busy, took time to chat and generally look after us even to the extent of giving my wife a birthday card and an attractively decorated dinner table. Can’t praise them enough. Good food at dinner and breakfast and a well appointed room. We will return.

Partner

10/10

Exceptional

11 Sep 2022

Joanne

Great place

Lovely clean rooms, very friendly staff and an amazing breakfast!

Partner

8/10

Excellent

14 Aug 2022

David

A very pleasant traditional public house and my room and bathrooom were clean and comfortable. Friendly and helpful staff.

Leisure Self

10/10

Exceptional

20 Jun 2022

STEPHEN W

Proper English Pub

Stayed here about 5yrs ago - great stay - a proper pub - still as good now (probably different management) - friendly helpful staff - they look after you

Nice to find somewhere that has stayed the same.

Self

10/10

Exceptional

12 Jun 2022

David

Made a special effort to allow us to check in early

Leisure Partner

10/10

Exceptional

26 May 2022

Martin

Stayed on business excellent clean accommodation, staff were very welcoming

Business

8/10

Excellent

15 May 2022

colin

Friendly staff. Rooms what we expected
Good menu although a little pricy
Out on its own, but we knew that.
Nice old world atmospherte

Leisure Partner

10/10

Exceptional

23 Apr 2022

Alex

Wonderful period property located in a beautiful setting. Extremely helpful and friendly staff. Breakfasts and dinners were all very tasty. The evening menu options varied each day. Thoroughly enjoyed our stay and would certainly consider a return visit.

Leisure Partner