Boer War Memorial, Eamont Bridge is a Grade II listed building in the Westmorland and Furness local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 December 2012. Memorial. 1 related planning application.
Boer War Memorial, Eamont Bridge
- WRENN ID
- first-sill-soot
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Westmorland and Furness
- Constituency
- Westmorland and Lonsdale MP: Tim Farron (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 December 2012
- Type
- Memorial
- Address
- Boer War Memorial, Eamont Bridge, Penrith, Cumbria, Yanwath and Eamont Bridge, CA10 2BU
- OS grid reference
- NY 523 284
- Coordinates
- 54.64854, -2.73984
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Boer War Memorial in Eamont Bridge is located at the corner of a field near a road junction and is positioned on the outer bank of a scheduled prehistoric henge. The memorial features a Celtic Cross on a rectangular pedestal, which stands on a larger square, two-stepped base. The front face of the cross head is adorned with relief bosses that display knot and interlace designs. The upper part of the shaft is similarly decorated, while the lower part features bronze relief portrait medallions of the two soldiers depicted, both wearing slouch hats.
The inscription on the front of the pedestal reads: "AT THAT CRISIS/IN THE HISTORY OF THE EMPIRE/WHEN VOLUNTEERS WERE INVITED FOR/ACTIVE SERVICE IN THE SOUTH AFRICAN WAR/THIS VILLAGE OF EAMONT BRIDGE SENT FOUR,/JOHN HINDSON, WILLIAM TODD, ARTHUR MARWICK/OF THE 24TH COY (WESTMORLAND AND CUMBERLAND)/IMPERIAL YEOMANRY, AND WILLIAM HINDSON, OF THE/VOLUNTEER COY OF THE BORDER REGIMENT/OF THESE/JOHN HINDSON AND WILLIAM TODD/WERE KILLED IN ACTION AT FABERS PUT/30TH MAY, 1900/THIS MONUMENT WAS ERECTED BY PUBLIC SUBSCRIPTION/ON THIS HISTORIC SITE GRANTED BY LORD BROUGHAM, AND VAUX 1901/DULCE ET DECORUM EST PRO PATRIA MORI."
The inscription on the front of the stepped base states: "THIS MONUMENT WAS ERECTED BY PUBLIC SUBSCRIPTION/ON THIS HISTORIC SITE GRANTED BY LORD BROUGHAM VAUX 1901/ DULCE ET DECORUM EST PRO PATRIA MORI."
On the left side of the pedestal, there is an inscription that reads: "SECOND WORLD WAR/1939-1945," along with the names of three fallen soldiers and their regiments listed below.
Local climate
Boer War Memorial, Eamont Bridge sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,250 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 93% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 86% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 57 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 34 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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