The Packhorse Inn

Gone

Closed 1936, when the Greyhound opened; later reopened, and sold to its tenant in 1960

There now

Late twentieth-century houses

Address

Burgh by Sands

Where exactly

Placed from the Ordnance Survey grid reference, NY3275859250, in Historic England's gazetteer of the scheme's premises. The building has since been demolished.

The main pub in Burgh by Sands from before 1829 until 1936, when it closed on the opening of the Greyhound, the manor house the scheme converted into the village's new pub. It is the Pack Horse at number 104 on the scheme's 1920 roll, so the state closed one of its own houses to open a better one. The village also had a Lowther Arms, from the eighteenth century. It did not stay shut.

Historic England's gazetteer has the scheme acquiring it in 1917 and records that it later reopened after the 1936 closure; the scheme sold it to its tenant in 1960. The site is now late twentieth-century houses. In July 1916 the Cumberland News listed it as the Pack Horse, Burgh, beside the Lowther Arms. In November 1841 the Loyal Burgh Marsh Lodge of Odd Fellows, a year old, held its anniversary in the village: a procession with the Brampton Band to Longburgh and back, a sermon in the church, and dinner for about a hundred in the Lodge Room at Mrs Richardson's, the Pack Horse.

Sources

• Mike Tuer, "Pubs of Carlisle" Day 220, Old Photos of Carlisle and Surrounding Area (Facebook)
• 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)
• Carlisle Journal, 27 November 1841, p. 3: 'Odd Fellowship' (via British Newspaper Archive)

Also lost in Burgh by Sands

• The Lowther Arms
• 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
  430 maway

• The Drovers Rest

  Monkhill
  1.8 kmaway

• The Royal Oak

  Moorhouse
  2.5 kmaway

• The Crown & Thistle

  Rockcliffe
  3.9 kmaway