Trumpington Public Houses: The Unicorn (The Lord Byron Inn)
The Unicorn (now The Lord Byron Inn ) is one of the public houses which have operated in Trumpington in the last 500 years. This page is based on a presentation given by Peter Dawson at the meeting titled Along the High Street, 26 March 2009.
The Unicorn public house. Photo: Andrew Roberts, 25 May 2009.
The Unicorn is on Church Lane, the one surviving pub not located on the main road through the village.
Extract from the Inland Revenue Land Value map for Trumpington, 1910-11, showing the Unicorn. Cambridgeshire Archives, file 470/047, sheet XLVII.10.
The pub is thought to date from c. 1840s. The thatched building is shown in a photograph of the brass band, though to date from the 1880s. It was owned by Trinity Hall, which leased it to Bullards [in the early 1900s]. It was sold to Dale’s Brewery in 1920.
Group of men in front of thatched cottage, with the Trumpington Brass Band in foreground. Percy Robinson collection. Trumpington Local History Group.
A group of nearly 100 men gathered in front of the thatched Unicorn public house, with the Trumpington Brass Band in the foreground, most of whom appear to be wearing uniforms and caps, and the Amicable Brotherly Friendly Society (dissolved in 1911) in the background, and three figures looking on from a window. The photograph has been dated between the 1860s and the 1880s (probably early 1880s). Percy Robinson collection.
The Unicorn Inn, early 1920s, with an advertisement for Dale’s Prize Beers. Cambridgeshire Collection.
It was extended in 2008 to provide bed & breakfast. After 170 years as The Unicorn, it was renamed The Lord Byron Inn in May 2012.
The Unicorn pub sign. Photo: Peter Dawson, March 2009.
New sign for the Lord Byron Inn (formerly The Unicorn). Photo: Andrew Roberts, 13 May 2012.
