Old Cumbria Gazetteer |
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| water trough, Dufton | ||
| locality:- | Dufton | |
| civil parish:- | Dufton (formerly Westmorland) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | water trough | |
| locality type:- | drinking fountain | |
| coordinates:- | NY68922507 | |
| 1Km square:- | NY6825 | |
| 10Km square:- | NY62 | |
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 BNS88.jpg (taken 29.5.2007)  BQR14.jpg The inscription round the top reads:- "FONS EST [ ]MIS NITIDIS ARGENTEUS [O]NDIS. / QUEN NEQUE [ ]ASTARES NEQUE PASTAE MONTE CAPELL[ ] / INFICI[U]NT AKIUDIE PECUS [Q]UEM NULLA VOLUCRIS / NIC FERA PERTORRAT NEC LA[C]SUS A[ ] [A B]OP RAMUS" (taken 31.5.2009) |
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| evidence:- | drawing:- Butler 1982-92 |
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| source data:- | water trough, Dufton drawn by David Butler courtesy of David Butler  click to enlargePR1466.jpg "[FOND EST ILLIMIS, NITIDIS ARGENTEUS ONDIS,]" There was a clear pool, with silvery shining waters. "[QUEM NEQUE PASTORES, NESQUE PASTAE MONTE CAPELLAW,]" where shephards had never made their way, no goats that "[INFICIUNT ALIUDE PECUS; QUEM NULLA VOLUCRIS]" pasture on the mountains, no cattle had ever come there, "[NEC FERA PERTURBAT, NEC LAPSUS AB ARBORE RAMUS.]" Its peace was undisturbed by bird or beast or falling branches. Ovid Metamorphoses bk.3 lines 409-412? item:- private collection : 377 Image © see bottom of page |
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| evidence:- | database:- Listed Buildings 2010 |
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| source data:- | courtesy of English Heritage "PUMP NEAR EAST END / / THE GREEN / DUFTON / EDEN / CUMBRIA / II / 73169 / NY6891625076" |
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| source data:- | courtesy of English Heritage "Pump, erected by the London Lead Company in the late C19. Circular in plan. Constructed of ashlar with chamfered plinth and roll-moulded rim to basin. Incised stucco column rising from centre of basin has cast-iron, lion's head, waterspout on south side; slot for pump handle on north side is blocked. A quotation from Ovid is carved between 2 roll-mouldings at the top of the column on the south side: FONS ERAT INLIMIS, NITIDIS ARGENTEUS UNDIS QUEM NEQUE PASTORES, NEQUE PASTAE MONTE CAPELLAE INFICIENT. ALIUDVE PECUS QUEM NULLA VOLUCRIS NEC FERA PERTURBAT. NEC LAPSUS AB ARBORE RAMUS." |
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| hearsay:- |
During a typhoid outbreak in Teesdale, the London Lead Mining Company, a quaker company,
imrpoved the water supply, 1858. There are water outlets in the village, including
this water trough on the green. |
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