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meeting house, Preston Patrick
Preston Patrick Meeting House
Birkrigg Park Meeting House
civil parish:-   Preston Patrick (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   meeting house
locality type:-   quaker meeting
coordinates:-   SD54238406
1Km square:-   SD5484
10Km square:-   SD58
references:-   Butler 1978


photograph
BQA67.jpg  (At the rear)
(taken 6.2.2009)  

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 43) 
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 Ho."

evidence:-   text:- 
placename:-  Preston Patrick Meeting House
placename:-  Birkrigg Park Meeting House
source data:-   : : Quaker Administrative History "PRESTON PATRICK, Westm, after 1974 Cumbr ... SD542840"
"1668-1833 ... Kendal MM"
"1874-1903 ... Kendal MM"
"1903- ... Kendal &Sedbergh MM"
"BIRKRIGG PARK, Westm, after 1974 Cumbr ... see PRESTON PATRICK"

evidence:-   old map:- Backhouse 1773
placename:-  Preston 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
BKH2Kndl.jpg
labelled:-  "Preston / 0.4"
meeting day Wednesday 
item:-  private collection : 224
Image © see bottom of page

evidence:-   drawing:- Butler 1978
placename:-  Preston Patrick Meeting House
source data:-   Preston Patrick 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
PR1528.jpg
image  click to enlarge
PR1529.jpg
item:-  private collection : 377
Images © Friends Historical Society

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