Lamb & Flag, Oxford

The Lamb had been operating since at least 1566, situated just south of St John's. In 1613 The pub is a Grade II listed building. The Lamb & Flag had suffered a loss of revenues since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, and closed on 31 January 2021. In September 2021, The Inklings, a community interest company, signed a 15-year lease to re-open it. The pub resumed service in October 2022. ==Popular culture==

The pub may have inspired Thomas Hardy to write part of his novel Jude the Obscure. The novelist Graham Greene drank at the pub while a student at Balliol College, and it was mentioned in P.D. James' book The Children of Men. The pub featured frequently in episodes of the ITV detective drama Inspector Morse, and in the pilot episode of Endeavour. In 1962, following modernisation of The Eagle and Child on the other side of St. Giles', the Inklings, a literary group including J. R. R. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis, started meeting at The Lamb and Flag. These meetings were soon abandoned after Lewis's death in 1963. ==Notes==