The Lamb public house

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Fore Street (Lower Middle Street)

 

There are only two references to this Lamb Inn (not to be confused with the later Lamb Inn in Back Kingston) and the first comes in the form of an advertisement for the sale of the Lamb in the Western Flying Post of 17 May 1779, as outlined below. From the advertisement it would appear that the Lamb was located in what is now Lower Middle Street.

 

YEOVIL
 To be sold by Survey, on Wednesday the 19th of May, instant, at the Mermaid Inn in Yeovil, in the County of Somerset, between the hours of 2 and 4 o'clock in the afternoon, the freehold and inheritance of all that Publick-House or Inn called the

LAMB
together with the houses, outhouses, and gardens to the
same belonging and adjoining, situate in, or near, the
Fore Street in Yeovil aforesaid, and now in the occupation
of Mr Harris as tenant thereof.
Dated 10 May 1779.

 

The second reference is in the Land Tax Redemption Register of 1799 in which William Rodber is cited as the owner and John Brown as the occupier.

 

Owners / lessees / licensees



1779

Mr Harris, tenant - see advertisement above

1799

William Rodber, owner - John Brown, occupier. Tax £2 0s 8d (Land Tax Redemption Register)