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A collection of pubs, an exclusive-use country house & a brewery.
The estate covers 5,000 acres deep in the beautiful Suffolk countryside located between Bury St Edmunds and Ipswich.
Nedging Hall sits in the middle of the mixed farm land and the estate has focused on reintroducing ancient woodland areas, hedgerows and ponds.
Impact on the Environment
The introduction of the Estate to Plate ethos across the estate.
This ethos comes to life with foraged ingredients, meats from the estate, and ales from our brewery
The creation of 12 new ponds since 2019
We've planted 10,000 trees every year (2020 – 2024)
Over 500m of hedgerows have been planted in both 2022 and 2023
We've overseen the restoration of ponds and ancient woodland in Raydon Wood
Estate to Plate
The Crown ensures that the food it serves is ultra local, most from their own gardens.
Fresh produce is delivered to The Crown’s kitchens from just down the road at Nedging Hall, providing fruit such as plums, pears, and apples, and vegetables including asparagus, onions, kale, leeks, rainbow chard, wild garlic and more
Our focus is to develop our green strategy to ensure we are sustainable and consistently deliver high standards
We work with the environment,
not simply taking from it.
Game from the Estate
Wild game is served from the estate and The Crown is the Eat Game 2025 Best Game Pub/Restaurant.
To ensure the maintenance of the estate’s ecosystem, shooting sustains a healthy population of wild game. Whether it’s venison, pheasants or partridges from the estate, you can enjoy our game at The Crown knowing it's lived a life that nature intended.
The countryside of Suffolk is something we feel incredibly proud of and want to look after for generations to come.
Steve Birch, our Head Brewer, has been with Mauldons over 40 years and he is paramount to the success of the brewery.
Barley to Bottle
Mauldons Brewery proudly crafts beers using malt barley grown at Nedging Hall Estate. Both rewarding and environmentally conscious, we significantly reduce our carbon footprint.
Spent grains from brewing are fed to Red Poll cattle, a rare Suffolk breed, with the resulting beef used in the estate’s establishments —highlighting a commitment to local, sustainable practices.
Dedicated to becoming one of the UK’s greenest breweries, Mauldons is focused on achieving net-zero emissions.
Future plans include adopting electric delivery vans and, with increased bottle sales, establishing an in-house bottling facility for complete process control.
Solar panels have been installed on buildings to provide renewable energy for brewing, powering electric vehicles, and supporting office operations.
Sustainability
“The nature of our business means that there are significant social impacts so we make every possible effort to ensure that our impacts are always positive.”
Award Recognition
In 2024 The Crown won Sustainability and Environmental business of the year at the East Anglian Daily Times business awards.
This accolade is thanks to the enormous effort that the Nedging Hall Estate team puts in, from growing barley to maintaining the vegetable gardens, but fundamentally from an understanding of the environment and the impact we are having on it.
See what's happening across The Estate...
