The Lowther Arms

Gone

Closed by 1930

There now

A house

Address

Burgh by Sands

Where exactly

Placed from the Ordnance Survey grid reference, NY3278259145, in Historic England's gazetteer of the scheme's premises. The building's use in 2018: residential.

One of three houses the scheme held at Burgh, taken and converted in 1917 and closed by 1930. It stood close to the Packhorse. In July 1916 it was one of two Burgh houses, with the Pack Horse, that the Board was about to buy.

Sources

• Historic England, Countering the 'deadliest of foes': public houses of the Central Control Board and the State Management Scheme, 1916-73 (Clare Howard, Research Report 89-2018): Appendix C, gazetteer of scheme premises
• The Cumberland News, 8 July 1916: 'First State tavern: to be opened by Lord Lonsdale', with the list of licensed houses in the Cumberland Ward and Longtown divisions (via newspapers.com)

Also lost in Burgh by Sands

• The Packhorse Inn
• The Rat Trap Inn

1 other lost pub stood within 250 m of here. See them on the map

Still serving, near where it stood

• Greyhound Inn

  Burgh by Sands
  410 maway

• The Drovers Rest

  Monkhill
  1.8 kmaway

• The Royal Oak

  Moorhouse
  2.4 kmaway

• The Crown & Thistle

  Rockcliffe
  4.0 kmaway