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| Welcome Inn, Eamont Bridge | ||
| Welcome Inn | ||
| locality:- | Kemplay Foot | |
| locality:- | Eamont Bridge | |
| civil parish:- | Penrith (formerly Cumberland) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | buildings | |
| coordinates:- | NY52192879 | |
| 1Km square:- | NY5228 | |
| 10Km square:- | NY52 | |
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 BRS72.jpg (taken 16.10.2009)  BMF51.jpg Date stone:- "Wharron 1781 [ ] / Nethan Elisabeth COULL MMDCCXVIII" (taken 2.6.2006) |
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| evidence:- | old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 59 5) placename:- Welcome into Cumberland 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 text:- Harper 1907 placename:- Welcome into Cumberland, The |
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| source data:- | Guidebook, The Manchester and Glasgow Road, by Charles G Harper,
published by Chapman and Hall Ltd, London, 1907. HP01p128.txt Page 128:- "..." "According to the writers of guide-books, there may be found, carved on the parapet of the [Eamont] bridge, the hospitable phrase, "Welcome into Cumberland." You, in fact, in crossing it leave Westmoreland for Cumberland, and, having read so much of this kindly sentiment, you seek diligently for the inscription. Alas! in vain. There is not, nor was there ever, anything of the kind. Instead, what meets your eye is an inn whose sign, "The Welcome into Cumberland," is adorned with a representation of pipes and punch-bowl, and with a weird picture of a Personage - he must be a Personage, for he wears frockcoat and silk hat - effusively greeting" HP01p130.txt Page 130:- "a Highlander arrayed in full Highland fig. Each looks astonished at the other, and the pilgrim of the roads, gazing fascinated, is astonished at both. This, then, is the "Welcome," and one by no means so disinterested as you were led to expect. Another vanished illusion!" "Even the inn bears its moral tag, for over the door you read "Struimus in Diem, sed Nox venit," with the date "MDCCXVII," and the names of Nathan and Elizabeth Gower. One "R. L. Wharton" appears to have endorsed the sentiment (having duly inquired what the Latin meant) and subscribed his name and the date 1781, in approval." |
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| evidence:- | database:- Listed Buildings 2010 placename:- Welcome Inn item:- date stone (1781) |
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| source data:- | courtesy of English Heritage "WELCOME INN WITH ATTACHED STABLE AND BARN / / KEMPLEY FOOT / PENRITH / EDEN / CUMBRIA / II / 72875 / NY5220228793" |
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 BRS81.jpg A reminder of the old innsign. (taken 16.10.2009) |
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