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| Bridge End, Eamont Bridge | ||
| Bridge End | ||
| locality:- | Eamont Bridge | |
| civil parish:- | Yanwath and Eamont Bridge (formerly Westmorland) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | buildings | |
| coordinates:- | NY52212870 | |
| 1Km square:- | NY5228 | |
| 10Km square:- | NY52 | |
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 BRS73.jpg (taken 16.10.2009)  BMF47.jpg Date stones:- "John Hall 1751 / OMNE SOLUM FORTI PATRIA EST HP 1671" ... Every soil is fatherland to a brave man ... (taken 2.6.2006) |
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| evidence:- | old text:- Gents Mag item:- date stone (1671) |
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| 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. goto sourceGentleman's Magazine 1831 part 2 p.400 "..." "The taste for inscriptions prevails in this district. I observed several (some of a recent date) at the little village of Gamont Bridge (sic). But there is one which invites attention, not more by the words themselves, than by the careful manner in which the letters have been cut:" "OMNE SOLUM FORTI / PATRIA EST. H. P. 1671." "I could learn nothing of the person who placed this over his door. Perhaps some of your Correspondents may be able to say by whom the words were inscribed." |
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| evidence:- | old photograph:- Bell 1880s-1940s item:- date stone (1671) |
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| source data:- | Photograph, b/w, date stone on house at Bridge End, Eamont Bridge, Yanwatah and Eamont
Bridge, Westmorland, by Herbert Bell, Ambleside, Westmorland, 1890s? click to enlargeHB0333.jpg item:- Armitt Library : ALPS693 Image © see bottom of page |
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| evidence:- | database:- Listed Buildings 2010 placename:- Bridge End item:- date stone (1671) |
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| source data:- | courtesy of English Heritage "BRIDGE END / / / YANWATH AND EAMONT BRIDGE / EDEN / CUMBRIA / II / 74381 / NY5222228695" |
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| hearsay:- |
This quotation was also used by General Ludlow, one of those who signed the death
warrant of Charles I, on his house in Lausanne, where he fled for safety after the
Restoration. |
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| The full quotation from Ovid Fast. i. v. 403 is:- |
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| "Omne solum forti patria est, ut piscibus acquor; / Ut volueri, vacuo quidquid in orbe
patet" |
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