High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Lamb & Flag is the name of several public houses in Britain of which perhaps the best known is the old coaching inn at 12 St Giles', Oxford, England. It is believed that Thomas Hardy wrote much of his novel Jude the Obscure in this pub. In the novel, the city of Christminster is a thinly-disguised Oxford, and it is thought that a pub that appears in certain passages of the novel is based on The Lamb & Flag. The pub also featured frequently in episodes of the ITV detective drama Inspector Morse. The Inklings (a literary group including C.S. Lewis) also met here, although they are more commonly associated with the Eagle and Child, which also stands on St. Giles, directly opposite the Lamb & Flag.