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meeting house, Bolton Low Houses
Bolton Low Houses Meeting House
locality:-   Bolton Low Houses
civil parish:-   Boltons (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   meeting house
locality type:-   quaker meeting
locality type:-   burial ground
locality type:-   quaker burial ground
coordinates:-   NY23864416
1Km square:-   NY2344
10Km square:-   NY24
references:-   Butler 1978


photograph
BVD87.jpg (taken 5.8.2011)  
photograph
BVD88.jpg  Plaque:-
"FRIENDS / BURIAL GROUND / 1700" (taken 5.8.2011)  

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 37 1) 
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.
"Friends Meeting House"

evidence:-   presumably text:- 
placename:-  Bolton Meeting House
source data:-   : : Quaker Administrative History "BOLTON, Cumb, after 1974 Cumbr ... NY238442"
"1668-1866 ... Holm MM"
"1873-1874 ... Holm MM"

evidence:-   old map:- Backhouse 1773
placename:-  Bolton meeting
source data:-   Map, hand coloured engraving, Map of the Meetings belonging to the Quarterly Meetings of Lancaster, Westmorland, Cumberland, Northumberland, Durham and York, scale about 9 miles to 1 inch, by James Backhouse, engraved by Thomas Kitchin, published by James Backhouse, Darlington, Durham, 1773.
image
BKH2Wgtn.jpg
labelled:-  "Bolton / 0.4"
meeting day Wednesday 
item:-  private collection : 224
Image © see bottom of page

evidence:-   drawing:- Butler 1978
placename:-  Bolton Low Houses Meeting House
source data:-   Bolton Low Houses Meeting House drawn by David Butler and published in Quaker Meeting Houses of the Lake Counties by David M Butler, by the Friends Historical Society, 1978
courtesy of David Butler
image  click to enlarge
PR1496.jpg
item:-  private collection : 377
Image © Friends Historical Society


photograph
BVD89.jpg (taken 5.8.2011)  

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