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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


photograph
BRS73.jpg (taken 16.10.2009)  
photograph
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)  

evidence:-   old text:- Gents Mag
item:-  date stone (1671)
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.
image G831B400, button  goto source
Gentleman'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."

evidence:-   old photograph:- Bell 1880s-1940s
item:-  date stone (1671)
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?
image  click to enlarge
HB0333.jpg
item:-  Armitt Library : ALPS693
Image © see bottom of page

evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
placename:-  Bridge End
item:-  date stone (1671)
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"BRIDGE END / / / YANWATH AND EAMONT BRIDGE / EDEN / CUMBRIA / II / 74381 / NY5222228695"

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.
The full quotation from Ovid Fast. i. v. 403 is:-
"Omne solum forti patria est, ut piscibus acquor; / Ut volueri, vacuo quidquid in orbe patet"

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