The Lamb is a

Grade II listed In the United Kingdom, a listed building or listed structure is one that has been placed on one of the four statutory lists maintained by Historic England in England, Historic Environment Scotland in Scotland, in Wales, and the Northern Irel ...

pub A pub (short for public house) is a kind of drinking establishment which is licensed to serve alcoholic drinks for consumption on the premises. The term ''public house'' first appeared in the United Kingdom in late 17th century, and was ...

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Lamb's Conduit Street Lamb's Conduit Street is a street in Holborn in the West End of London. The street takes its name from ''Lambs Conduit'', originally known as the ''Holborn Conduit'', a dam across a tributary of the River Fleet. Lamb's Conduit Lamb's Conduit w ...

, in the

London Borough of Camden The London Borough of Camden () is a London borough in Inner London. Camden Town Hall, on Euston Road, lies north of Charing Cross. The borough was established on 1 April 1965 from the area of the former boroughs of Hampstead, Holborn, and St ...

, London. The Lamb was built in the 1720s and the pub and the street were named after William Lamb, who repaired the ''Holborn Conduit'', later renamed Lamb's Conduit in his honour, a few metres to the south, in 1577. The Lamb was refurbished in the

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and is one of the few remaining pubs with ' snob screens' which allowed the well-to-do drinker not to see the bar staff, and vice versa.

Charles Dickens Charles John Huffam Dickens (; 7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870) was an English writer and social critic. He created some of the world's best-known fictional characters and is regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian e ...

lived locally and is reputed to have frequented The Lamb. Other writers associated with the pub include

Ted Hughes Edward James "Ted" Hughes (17 August 1930 – 28 October 1998) was an English poet, translator, and children's writer. Critics frequently rank him as one of the best poets of his generation and one of the twentieth century's greatest wri ...

and

Sylvia Plath Sylvia Plath (; October 27, 1932 – February 11, 1963) was an American poet, novelist, and short story writer. She is credited with advancing the genre of confessional poetry and is best known for two of her published collections, ''The ...

. Hughes, who was a regular at the pub, arranged to meet Plath there in the early days of their relationship.Connie Ann Kirk, ''Sylvia Plath: a Biography'' (Greenwood, 2004) p. 73 Lamb pub, Lamb's Conduit Street, Bloomsbury 14

Lamb pub, Lamb's Conduit Street, Bloomsbury 14

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