The Otter Inn

Built

In local directories from 1870, possibly earlier under an older name

Gone

Closed February 1907

There now

Not established

Address

11 Drover's Lane

Its licence was threatened with withdrawal in 1895 but survived another twelve years; John Carrick, born at Cargo, was innkeeper by 1901. A licensing session finally closed it in February 1907. The site's own pub database gives an earlier name for the same address, the Cumberland Wrestlers -- an unrelated, coincidental echo of the much better-documented Cumberland Wrestlers on Currock Street, which this isn't; the wrestling sign was evidently popular enough to be used more than once around the city.

Sources

• Carlisle Encyclopaedia, "O" page
• CARLISLE_PUBS_Ver_3.xls (Mike Tuer's pub database)