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Date of photo: 2017	Picture source: Movement80
The Lamb & Flag was situated on Faringdon Road. This grade-II listed Greene King pub closed in October 2016, after hosting a Thai restaurant and takeaway for years. It closed for a brief period in 2016 then re-opened as an Indian – Spice at the Lamb and Flag – in August 2017, then shut again two months later. It has now been converted into a private residence entitled Lamb & Flag House.
Review from tantallon.org.uk:
Whitbread Best Bitter £1.77 Coffee 70p Coke £1.01 McCoy's crisps 45p The geography round here is confusing. There is a long unpleasant housing estate stretching from Kingston Bagpuize House and Gardens to a hotel called Freshfields. The hotel claims to be in Longworth, a settlement which has its nucleus about a mile and a half to the north and on the far side of the A420. The other component of Longworth is this pub, which is on a dead end of track (that used to be the Faringdon road) on the far side of a roundabout from Kingston Bagpuize and Southmoor. The phone book lists it as Faringdon Road, but there's a road sign saying "Lamb and Flag Road" at the roundabout. The pub itself has an ample car park, fences to lean your bike against, evidence of a bouncy castle in summer months, and the most intriguing false ceiling I have yet seen. It's made of wattle (as in wattle-and-daub), and the landlady is worried about the spiders in it. There is NO BITTER ON CASK. I was glad to make do with coffee. Fine as a stopping off point on an extended cycle run, but not worth making the trek out for. You're better off with the Blue Boar on the far side of the bypass. (20.ii.1999)
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