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Eamont Bridge, Eamont Bridge
Eamont Bridge
site name:-   Eamont, River
locality:-   Eamont Bridge
civil parish:-   Yanwath and Eamont Bridge (formerly Westmorland)
civil parish:-   Penrith (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   bridge
locality type:-   boundary feature
locality type:-   county boundary feature
coordinates:-   NY52222874
1Km square:-   NY5228
10Km square:-   NY52

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BMF48.jpg (taken 2.6.2006)  
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BMF49.jpg (taken 2.6.2006)  
evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 3 12) 
placename:-  Eamont Bridge
source data:-   Maps, County Series maps of Great Britain, scales 6 and 25 inches to 1 mile, published by the Ordnance Survey, Southampton, Hampshire, from about 1863 to 1948.
OS County Series (Cmd 59 5) 
evidence:-   old map:- Saxton 1579
source data:-   Map, hand coloured engraving, Westmorlandiae et Cumberlandiae Comitatus ie Westmorland and Cumberland, scale about 5 miles to 1 inch, by Christopher Saxton, London, engraved by Augustinus Ryther, 1576, published 1579-1645.
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Over the Eamont S of Penrith. 
item:-  private collection : 2
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evidence:-   old map:- Speed 1611 (Cmd) 
source data:-   Map, hand coloured engraving, Cumberland and the Ancient Citie Carlile Described, scale about 4 miles to 1 inch, by John Speed, 1610, published by J Sudbury and George Humble, Popes Head Alley, London, 1611-12.
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double line across the Eamont, S of Penrith 
item:-  private collection : 16
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evidence:-   old map:- Ogilby 1675 (plate 38) 
placename:-  Emonbridge
source data:-   Road strip map, hand coloured engraving, continuation of the Road from London to Carlisle, scale about 1 inch to 1 mile, by John Ogilby, London, 1675.
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In mile 281, Westmorland. 
Road crosses over the river at:-  "Emonbridge"
with a drawing of a low arch over the:-  "Eden Flu"
item:-  JandMN : 21
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evidence:-   old map:- Sanson 1679
source data:-   Map, hand coloured engraving, Ancien Royaume de Northumberland aujourdhuy Provinces de Nort, ie the Ancient Kingdom of Northumberland or the Northern Provinces, scale about 9.5 miles to 1 inch, by Nicholas Sanson, Paris, France, 1679.
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double line over a stream; bridge, across county boundary 
item:-  Dove Cottage : 2007.38.15
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evidence:-   old map:- Morden 1695 (Cmd) 
source data:-   Map, uncoloured engraving, Cumberland, scale about 4 miles to 1 inch, by Robert Morden, 1695, published by Abel Swale, the Unicorn, St Paul's Churchyard, Awnsham, and John Churchill, the Black Swan, Paternoster Row, London, 1695-1715.
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Double line over a stream. 
item:-  JandMN : 90
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evidence:-   old map:- Morden 1695 (Wmd) 
source data:-   Map, hand coloured engraving, Westmorland, scale about 2.5 miles to 1 inch, by Robert Morden, published by Abel Swale, the Unicorn, St Paul's Churchyard, Awnsham, and John Churchill, the Black Swan, Paternoster Row, London, 1695.
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Double line over a stream. 
item:-  JandMN : 24
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evidence:-   old map:- Bowen 1720 (plate 94) 
placename:-  Emon Bridge
source data:-   Strip maps, uncoloured engravings, road maps, The Road from London to Carlisle, scale about 2 miles to 1 inch, with sections in Lancashire and Westmorland, published by Emanuel Bowen, St Katherines, London, 1720.
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At mile 281-282. 
item:-  Dove Cottage : 2007.38.100
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evidence:-   old map:- Bowen and Kitchin 1760
placename:-  Emon Bridge
source data:-   Map, hand coloured engraving, A New Map of the Counties of Cumberland and Westmoreland Divided into their Respective Wards, scale about 4 miles to 1 inch, by Emanuel Bowen and Thomas Kitchin et al, published by T Bowles, Robert Sayer, and John Bowles, London, 1760.
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"Emon Br in"
labelled by road across the Eamont 
item:-  Armitt Library : 2008.14.10
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evidence:-   old map:- Jefferys 1770 (Wmd) 
placename:-  Eamont Bridge
source data:-   Map, 4 sheets, The County of Westmoreland, scale 1 inch to 1 mile, surveyed 1768, and engraved and published by Thomas Jefferys, London, 1770.
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"Eamont Bridge"
double line, road, across a stream; bridge 
item:-  National Library of Scotland : EME.s.47
Image © National Library of Scotland
evidence:-   old text:- Pennant 1773
placename:-  Eimont Bridge
source data:-   Book, A Tour from Downing to Alston Moor, 1773, by Thomas Pennant, published by Edward Harding, 98 Pall Mall, London, 1801.
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Pennant's Tour 1773, page 158  "I crossed Eimont-bridge. In the reign of Henry VI. there was a general contribution towards the building, or, perhaps, rebuilding of this bridge. The piety of the country was made an instrument of so good a work; an indulgence of forty days was bestowed upon every well-disposed person who flung his mite to forward the design. I then entered the County of"
"CUMBERLAND."
evidence:-   old map:- Donald 1774 (Cmd) 
source data:-   Map, hand coloured engraving, 3x2 sheets, The County of Cumberland, scale about 1 inch to 1 mile, by Thomas Donald, engraved and published by Joseph Hodskinson, 29 Arundel Street, Strand, London, 1774.
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double line across a river; a bridge 
item:-  Carlisle Library : Map 2
Image © Carlisle Library
evidence:-   old text:- Clarke 1787
placename:-  Emont Bridge
source data:-   Guide book, A Survey of the Lakes of Cumberland, Westmorland, and Lancashire, written and published by James Clarke, Penrith, Cumberland, and in London etc, 1787; published 1787-93.
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Page 11:-  "..."
"Emont Bridge divides Cumberland from Westmorland, and is a plain but substantial building. From the middle arch is a beautiful view either up or down the river, and perhaps few places are better disposed in point of picturesque beauty, though none have been less noticed."
evidence:-   old map:- Cary 1789 (edn 1805) 
source data:-   Map, uncoloured engraving, Westmoreland, scale about 2.5 miles to 1 inch, by John Cary, London, 1789; edition 1805.
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road across a stream; bridge 
item:-  JandMN : 129
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evidence:-   old map:- Cooper 1808
source data:-   Map, hand coloured engraving, Westmoreland ie Westmorland, scale about 9 miles to 1 inch, by H Cooper, 1808, published by R Phillips, Bridge Street, Blackfriars, London, 1808.
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road across stream; bridge? 
item:-  Dove Cottage : 2007.38.53
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evidence:-   old map:- Otley 1818
source data:-   Map, uncoloured engraving, The District of the Lakes, Cumberland, Westmorland, and Lancashire, scale about 4 miles to 1 inch, by Jonathan Otley, 1818, engraved by J and G Menzies, Edinburgh, Scotland, published by Jonathan Otley, Keswick, Cumberland, et al, 1833.
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Implied by a road across the stream. 
item:-  JandMN : 48.1
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evidence:-   descriptive text:- Ford 1839 (3rd edn 1843) 
source data:-   Guide book, A Description of Scenery in the Lake District, by Rev William Ford, published by Charles Thurnam, Carlisle, by W Edwards, 12 Ave Maria Lane, Charles Tilt, Fleet Street, William Smith, 113 Fleet Street, London, by Currie and Bowman, Newcastle, by Bancks and Co, Manchester, by Oliver and Boyd, Edinburgh, and by Sinclair, Dumfries, 1839.
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Page 133:-  "..."
"A pleasant road [from penrith] leads to Eamont Bridge, so picturesque an object that it ought to be transferred to the sketch-book of every artist. ..."
evidence:-   old photograph:- Bell 1880s-1940s
source data:-   Photograph, b/w, Eamont Bridge, Yanwath and Eamont Bridge, Westmorland, by Herbert Bell, Ambleside, Westmorland, 1890s?
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item:-  Armitt Library : ALPS651
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evidence:-   old photograph:- Bell 1880s-1940s
source data:-   Photograph, b/w, Eamont Bridge and the River Eamont, Yanwath and Eamont Bridge, Westmorland, by Herbert Bell, Ambleside, Westmorland, 1890s?
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item:-  Armitt Library : ALPS652
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evidence:-   old map:- Bell 1892
placename:-  Eamont Bridge
source data:-   Map, colour lithograph, Road Map of Cumberland, by George Joseph Bell, scale about 2.5 miles to 1 inch, printed by Charles Thurnam and Sons, Carlisle, Cumberland, 1892.
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"EAMONT BRIDGE"
bridge symbol; on county boundary 
 
Road map of Cumberland showing County Bridges 
item:-  Carlisle Library : Map 38
Image © Carlisle Library
evidence:-   old photograph:- Ullswater Steamers 1900s (edn 1903) 
placename:-  Eamont Bridge
source data:-   Photograph, bw halftone, Eamont Bridge, Penrith, Cumberland, published in a guide book by the Ullswater Steam Navigation Co, Penrith, Cumberland, 1903.
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printed, bottom  "EAMONT BRIDGE, PENRITH"
item:-  JandMN : 1023.1
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evidence:-   old print:- Bradley 1901
placename:-  Eamont Bridge
source data:-   Print, uncoloured lithograph, Eamont Bridge, near Penrith, Yanwath and Eamont Bridge, Westmorland, by Joseph Pennell, published by Macmillan and Co, London, 1901.
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On page 33 of Highways and Byways in the Lake District, by A G Bradley. 
printed at lower left:-  "AG"
printed at bottom:-  "Eamont Bridge, near Penrith."
item:-  JandMN : 464.5
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evidence:-   old text:- Harper 1907
placename:-  Eamont Bridge
source data:-   HP01p128.txt
Page 128:-  "..."
"The road over Eamont Bridge is very steep and narrow and the ascent beyond it steeper still; so that the stranger, observing the fury with which the drivers of the excursion wagonettes and motor chars-a-bancs take the ascents and descents on their wild way to and from Penrith and Ullswater, confidently expects an accident "while he waits." But whether it be skill, or luck, the accidents do not happen, and expectant strangers, to have their expectations realised, would have to wait on the spot until the moss grew on them."
"According to the writers of guide-books, there may be found, carved on the parapet of the bridge, the hospitable phrase, "Welcome into Cumberland." You, in fact, in crossing it leave Westmoreland for Cumberland, and, having read so much of this kindly sentiment, you seek diligently for the inscription. Alas! in vain. There is not, nor was there ever, anything of the kind. Instead, what meets your eye is an inn whose sign, "The Welcome into Cumberland," ..."
HP01p129.txt
Page 129:- 
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"EAMONT BRIDGE."
item:-  JandMN : 1055.19
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evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
placename:-  Eamont Bridge
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"EAMONT BRIDGE / / A6 / PENRITH / EDEN / CUMBRIA / I / 72755 / NY5221928752"
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"EAMONT BRIDGE / / / YANWATH AND EAMONT BRIDGE / EDEN / CUMBRIA / I / 74380 / NY5222128745"
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"Road bridge over the River Eamont crossing the old county boundary between Cumberland and Westmorland. Probably C15 widened 1875. Dressed grey sandstone with alterations of dressed red sandstone. Narrow slightly humped-back bridge of 3 segmental arches, the soffits originally supported by 4 ribs but with widening now 6; recessed voussoirs, supported on 2 splayed cutwaters continued up to form pedestrian refuges with solid parapets. When widened on the down stream side care was taken to use much of the old stonework. Parapet partly rebuilt in red sandstone. One of the oldest bridges still in daily use in the county. RCHM, Westmorland, 1936 p.250, which says it was rebuilt in C16, but there is no evidence of this and the bridge with its later alterations appears to be as constructed. This bridge lies partly in Yanwath and Eamont Bridge C.P. Bibliography 3728 Inventory Of Westmorland (Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England), 1936, Page(s) 250."
evidence:-   old print:- Rose 1832-35 (vol.2 no.51) 
placename:-  Eamont Bridge
source data:-   Print, uncoloured engraving, Eamont Bridge, from the Westmorland Side, drawn by Thomas Allom, engraved by W Taylor, published by Fisher, Son and Co, London, 1832-35.
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vol.2 pl.51 in the set of prints, Westmorland, Cumberland, Durham and Northumberland Illustrated. 
printed at bottom left, right, centre:-  "T. Allom. / W. Taylor. / EAMONT BRIDGE, FROM THE WESTMORLAND SIDE."
item:-  Dove Cottage : 2008.107.30
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