Old Cumbria Gazetteer - Eamont Bridge

Eamont Bridge

Yamon Bridge

civil parish:-

Yanwath and Eamont Bridge (formerly Westmorland)

county:-

Cumbria

locality type:-

locality

locality type:-

buildings

coordinates:-

NY52242868 (etc)

1Km square:-

NY5228

10Km square:-

NY52

evidence:-

old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 3 12)
placename:- Eamontbridge

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:-

hearth tax returns:- Hearth Tax 1675
placename:- Bridge, The

source data:-

Records, hearth tax survey returns, Westmorland, 1674/75.
"The bridge"
in "Yainwath and Bridge"

evidence:-

hearth tax returns:- Hearth Tax 1670
placename:- Emond Bridge

source data:-

Records, hearth tax returns, exchequer duplicates, Westmorland, 1670.
"Emond Bridge"

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.

OG38m277.jpg
In mile 281, Westmorland. "Emonbridge"
Houses drawn each side of the road.
item:- JandMN : 21
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evidence:-

old map:- Morden 1695 (Wmd)
placename:- Emot

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.

MD10NY52.jpg
"Emot"
Circle, building and tower.
item:- JandMN : 24
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evidence:-

descriptive text:- Defoe 1724-26
placename:- Louther Bridge

source data:-

Tour through England and Wales, by Daniel Defoe, published in parts, London, 1724-26.
"... the great road leads to the left-hand to Perith, in going to which we first pass the Eden, at a very good stone bridge call'd Louther Bridge, and then the Elnot over another."

evidence:-

old text:- Gents Mag
item:- rebellion, 1745; 1745 Rebellion; inn, Eamont Bridge

source data:-

Magazine, The Gentleman's Magazine or Monthly Intelligencer or Historical Chronicle, published by Edward Cave under the pseudonym Sylvanus Urban, and by other publishers, London, monthly from 1731 to 1922.

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Gentleman's Magazine 1746 p.62 "..."
"Dec. 14 [1745]. The D. of Perth with about 110 men, the vanguard of the rebels, ... about noon they proceeded on their march as far as Eamont Bridge, intending for Penrith that night, but perceiving that beacon on fire, they enquir'd at a public house the reason; the landlady told them it was to raise the country, and added, 'Gentlemen, I desire you for God's sake to go back, because all the hedges from here to Penrith are lin'd.' They follow'd her advice, and returned to Shap. ..."

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.

BO18NY42.jpg
blocks, on road
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.

J5NY52NW.jpg
"Eamont Bridge"
blocks, labelled in upright lowercase text; settlement; town?
item:- National Library of Scotland : EME.s.47
Image © National Library of Scotland

evidence:-

old map:- Donald 1774 (Cmd)
placename:- Eamont Bridge

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.

D4NY52NW.jpg
"Eamont Bridge"
block or blocks, labelled in lowercase; a hamlet or just a house
item:- Carlisle Library : Map 2
Image © Carlisle Library

evidence:-

old text:- Clarke 1787
placename:- Emont Bridge
item:- dyes

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:- "..."
"We now enter the small but neat village of Emont Bridge, consisting only of a few cottages; yet so excellently is this spot situated for trade, that besides a very considerable bleaching-ground, several fulling mills, &c. here is a silk and woolen Dyer, of sufficient abilities to produce all those beautiful tints which are employed in the Earl of Lonsdale's splendid Carpet-Manufactory, whose excellence is universally known."

evidence:-

old map:- Cary 1789 (edn 1805)
placename:- Emont Bridge

source data:-

Map, uncoloured engraving, Westmoreland, scale about 2.5 miles to 1 inch, by John Cary, London, 1789; edition 1805.

CY24NY52.jpg
"Emont Br"
block/s, labelled in italic lowercase; house, or hamlet; also in Cumberland
item:- JandMN : 129
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evidence:-

road book:- Cary 1798 (2nd edn 1802)
placename:- Emont Bridge

source data:-

Road book, itineraries, Cary's New Itinerary, by John Cary, 181 Strand, London, 2nd edn 1802.

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C38267.jpg
page 267-268 "Emont Bridge"

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C38281.jpg
page 281-282 "Emont Bridge"
item:- JandMN : 228.1
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evidence:-

old map:- Ford 1839 map
placename:- Eamont Bridge

source data:-

Map, uncoloured engraving, Map of the Lake District of Cumberland, Westmoreland and Lancashire, scale about 3.5 miles to 1 inch, published by Charles Thurnam, Carlisle, and by R Groombridge, 5 Paternoster Row, London, 3rd edn 1843.

FD02NY52.jpg
"Eamont Br."
item:- JandMN : 100.1
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evidence:-

old photograph:- Bell 1880s-1940s
item:- date stone (1671)

source data:-

Photograph, House at Eamont Bridge, date stone, Eamont Bridge, Westmorland, by Herbert Bell, photographer, Ambleside, Westmorland, 1895.

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Vol.1 no.64 in an album, Examples of Early Domestic and Military Architecture in Westmorland, assembled 1910.
ms at bottom:- "64. House at Eamont Bridge. Barton. W."
item:- Armitt Library : 1958.3165.64
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evidence:-

old map:- Burrow 1920s

source data:-

Road book, On the Road, Dunlop Pictorial Road Plans, volume V, strip maps with parts in Westmorland, Cumberland etc, irregular scale about 1.5 miles to 1 inch, by E J Burrow and Co, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, 1920s.