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meeting house, Garsdale
Garsdale Meeting House
Birkrigg Meeting House
Raygill Meeting House
locality:-   Raygill
locality:-   Garsdale valley
civil parish:-   Garsdale (formerly Yorkshire)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   meeting house
locality type:-   quaker meeting
coordinates:-   SD76659020 (?) 
1Km square:-   SD7690
10Km square:-   SD79
references:-   Butler 1978


photograph
BWZ14.jpg (taken 27.7.2012)  

evidence:-   text:- 
placename:-  Garsdale Meeting House
placename:-  Birkrigg Meeting House
placename:-  Raygill Meeting House
source data:-   : : Quaker Administrative History "GARSDALE, Yorks WR, after 1974 Cumbr ... SD767902"
"1690-1860 ... Sedbergh MM"
"1868-1900 ... Sedbegrh MM"
"BIRKRIGG, Yorks WR, after 1974 Cumbr ... see GARSDALE"
"RAYGILL, Lancs, after 1974 Cumbr ... see GARSDALE"

evidence:-   old map:- Backhouse 1773
placename:-  Garsdale 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
BKH2Sdbr.jpg
labelled:-  "Garsdale / 0.5"
meeting day Thursday 
item:-  private collection : 224
Image © see bottom of page

evidence:-   drawing:- Butler 1978
placename:-  Garsdale Meeting House
source data:-   Garsdale 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
PR1548.jpg
item:-  private collection : 377
Image © Friends Historical Society

hearsay:-  
Converted from a farm house belonging to John Fawcett, 1703-04, and extended later. Meetings were already well established 'without doors' or in local houses. The meeting ceased 1901.

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