The Rat Trap Inn

Gone

Closed 1936

There now

A house

Address

Longburgh, Burgh by Sands

Where exactly

Placed from the Ordnance Survey grid reference, NY3086858914, in Historic England's gazetteer of the scheme's premises. The building's use in 2018: residential.

At Longburgh, a mile down the road from Burgh, in a building of the late eighteenth or early nineteenth century. It was the Wheatsheaf on the Ordnance Survey map of 1900 and seems to have become the Rat Trap between 1906 and 1910, which is a rare case of a pub trading down its name. The scheme took it from the Old Brewery in August 1916 and closed it in 1936, the year the Greyhound opened as a pub. In July 1916 the Cumberland News listed it as the Rat Trap, Longburgh.

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 Lowther Arms

Still serving, near where it stood

• Greyhound Inn

  Burgh by Sands
  1.5 kmaway

• The Royal Oak

  Moorhouse
  3.1 kmaway

• The Drovers Rest

  Monkhill
  3.6 kmaway

• Tam O'Shanter

  Little Bampton
  5.1 kmaway