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The Lamb Inn was situated at 11 Millgate.

Source: Christine Humphrey

The Lamb adjoined another public house named the Packhorse, at number 13. They were both first mentioned in the 1820s but it is likely they were even older. Certainly, the buildings were. They were half-timbered, and it is thought they could have dated back to the 15th Century. The Packhorse is thought to have its origins in the town house of the Bamford family. Brewing took place at the Lamb. It was advertised ‘to let’ in the 1850s, complete with a four-barrel brew house. The pub eventually passed to Sarah Marsland’s Brookfield Brewery in the 1870s and finally to Showell’s Brewing Co., before closing in 1894. Ten years later, along with the Packhorse, it was demolished to make way for the County Hotel, replacing possibly real Tudor with Mock Tudor. The Edwardian pub itself was demolished in the 1980s and is now the site of the rear service entrance to the Asda supermarket.

Dave Stearn, Opening Times magazine, July/August 2025

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