About Us

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 has focused on reintroducing ancient woodland areas, hedgerows and ponds.

Our Impact

InIntroduction of the Estate to Plate ethos

12 new ponds since 2019

10,000 trees planted every year (2020 – 2024)

500m of hedgerows planted in both 2022 and 2023

Restoration of ponds and ancient woodland in Raydon Wood

Estate to Plate

The Crown ensures that the food it serves is local, most significantly 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 every herb imaginable!

The list goes on, and there the produce is transformed into delectable meals that appear on their seasonal menu.

Our focus is to develop our green strategy to ensure we are sustainable and deliver high standards whilst working with the environment, and not taking from it.

Working seasonally has helped us to create beautiful and diverse dishes.

Wild Game

Wild game is served from the estate and we have been shortlisted for the Eat Game Awards 2025 for Best Game Pub/Restaurant and Best Game Chef.

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.

Charlie Buckle & Steve Birch tasting Suffolk Pride

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 and premium new-age hops sourced from the UK. 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.

Farm-grown maize fuels the estate’s anaerobic digestion (AD) plants, which generate renewable electricity for the brewery and other businesses. Captured CO2 from this process is repurposed to carbonate the beers, completing a sustainable cycle.

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, further reducing the brewery’s environmental impact.

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.