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| Crown, Eamont Bridge | ||
| locality:- | Eamont Bridge | |
| civil parish:- | Yanwath and Eamont Bridge (formerly Westmorland) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | inn | |
| coordinates:- | NY52342843 | |
| 1Km square:- | NY5228 | |
| 10Km square:- | NY52 | |
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 BMP09.jpg Innsign, a crown. (taken 4.9.2006)  BMP08.jpg (taken 4.9.2006) |
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| evidence:- | old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 3 16) placename:- Crown Inn |
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| 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. |
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| evidence:- | old advertisement:- Ullswater Steamers 1900s (edn 1903) placename:- Crown Hotel |
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| source data:- | Advertisements, ... for J Swenson, Crown Hotel, Eamont Bridge, Westmorland, ... published
in a guide book by the Ullswater Steam Navigation Co, 1903. click to enlargeUN1A04.jpg item:- JandMN : 1023.29 Image © see bottom of page |
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| evidence:- | old text:- Harper 1907 item:- King Arthur's Drinking Cup |
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| source data:- | HP01p127.txt Page 127:- "King Arthur is further celebrated in a huge circular red sandstone tank in the yard of the "Crown" inn, adjoining. It is known locally as "King Arthur's Drinking Cup," and has a capacity of about eighty gallons, sufficient to quench the thirst, not merely of King Arthur, but of a megatherium. But quite apart from any wildly absurd"  click to enlargeHP0117.jpg "KING ARTHUR'S DRINKING CUP." "legends, the thing is astonishing in these days of zinc cisterns. Who so painfully scooped out this tank of a solid block of stone, and when, and how long the work occupied him, are alike unknown." "..." item:- JandMN : 1055.18 Image © see bottom of page |
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| evidence:- | database:- Listed Buildings 2010 placename:- Crown Hotel item:- date stone (1770) |
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| source data:- | courtesy of English Heritage "CROWN HOTEL / / / YANWATH AND EAMONT BRIDGE / EDEN / CUMBRIA / II / 74383 / NY5233628460" |
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| source data:- | courtesy of English Heritage "Former house and public house now hotel. Dated and inscribed on date panel W.M. Bushby 1770, with later alterations and additions. Painted roughcast walls on chamfered plinth, right part with V-jointed quoins. Graduated greenslate roof with painted brick chimney stack. 2 storeys, 7 bays under common roof with right former separate 2-storey, 3-bay house now joined by C19 2-storey, single-bay recessed link. Left part of 1770 has panelled door in rusticated surround and 3 left canted bay windows, that almost in centre of 2 storeys. Sash windows, some with glazing bars in painted stone surrounds. Link has large C20 doorway up steps. Former house has double sash windows." |
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 BMP10.jpg Date stone:- "W:&:M / Bushby / 1770" (taken 4.9.2006) |
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 CFP54.jpg King Arthur's Drinking Cup. (taken 19.10.2016) courtesy of the landlord  CFP55.jpg King Arthur's Drinking Cup. (taken 19.10.2016) courtesy of the landlord |
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