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meeting house, Leyeat
Leyeat Meeting House
Lea Yeat Meeting House
Cowgill Meeting House
Kirkthwaite Meeting House
Dentdale Meeting House
locality:-   Lea Yeat
locality:-   Cowgill
civil parish:-   Dent (formerly Yorkshire)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   meeting house
locality type:-   quaker meeting
coordinates:-   SD76108690
1Km square:-   SD7686
10Km square:-   SD78
references:-   Butler 1978


photograph
BSF17.jpg (taken 26.2.2010)  
photograph
BSF18.jpg  Recent plaque
"COWGILL INSTITUTE / FORMERLY / LEYEAT MEETING HOUSE / OF THE / SOCIETY OF FRIENDS / 1702-1912." (taken 26.2.2010)  

evidence:-   text:- 
placename:-  Leayeat Meeting House
placename:-  Cowgill Meeting House
placename:-  Leyeat Meeting House
placename:-  Kirkthwaite Meeting House
source data:-   : : Quaker Administrative History "LEAYEAT, Yorks WR, after 1974 Cumbr ... SD761869"
"1668-1903 ... Sedbergh MM"
"1903-1911 ... Kendal &Sedbergh MM"
"COWGILL, Yorks W, after 1974 Cumbr ... see LEAYEAT"
"LEYEAT, Yorks WR, after 1974 Cumbr ... see LEAYEAT"
"KIRKTHWAITE, Yorks WR, after 1974 Cumbr ... see LEAYEAT"

evidence:-   drawing:- Butler 1978
placename:-  Leyeat Meeting House
source data:-   Leyeat 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
PR1547.jpg
item:-  private collection : 377
Image © Friends Historical Society

evidence:-   old map:- OS County series (Yrk 64) 
source data:-   "Quaker Meeting House"

hearsay:-  
Built 1702; closed 1911.

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