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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


photograph
BMP09.jpg  Innsign, a crown.
(taken 4.9.2006)  
photograph
BMP08.jpg (taken 4.9.2006)  

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 3 16) 
placename:-  Crown Inn
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.

evidence:-   old advertisement:- Ullswater Steamers 1900s (edn 1903) 
placename:-  Crown Hotel
source data:-   Advertisements, ... for J Swenson, Crown Hotel, Eamont Bridge, Westmorland, ... published in a guide book by the Ullswater Steam Navigation Co, 1903.
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UN1A04.jpg
item:-  JandMN : 1023.29
Image © see bottom of page

evidence:-   old text:- Harper 1907
item:-  King Arthur's Drinking Cup
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"
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HP0117.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
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evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
placename:-  Crown Hotel
item:-  date stone (1770)
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"CROWN HOTEL / / / YANWATH AND EAMONT BRIDGE / EDEN / CUMBRIA / II / 74383 / NY5233628460"
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."


photograph
BMP10.jpg  Date stone:-
"W:&:M / Bushby / 1770" (taken 4.9.2006)  


photograph
CFP54.jpg  King Arthur's Drinking Cup.
(taken 19.10.2016)  courtesy of the landlord
photograph
CFP55.jpg  King Arthur's Drinking Cup.
(taken 19.10.2016)  courtesy of the landlord

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