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meeting house, Cockermouth
Friends Meeting House
Cockermouth Meeting House
Street:-   Kirkgate
locality:-   Cockermouth
civil parish:-   Cockermouth (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   meeting house
locality type:-   quaker meeting
locality type:-   chapel
coordinates:-   NY12453050
1Km square:-   NY1230
10Km square:-   NY13


photograph
BNP50.jpg (taken 26.4.2007)  

Butler 1978

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 54 4) 
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 / Grave yard"

evidence:-   text:- 
placename:-  Cockermouth Meeting House
source data:-   : : Quaker Administrative History "COCKERMOUTH, Cumb, after 1974 Cumbr"
"1688- ... Pardshaw MM"

evidence:-   old map:- Backhouse 1773
placename:-  Cockermouth 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
BKH2Prds.jpg
labelled:-  "Cockermouth / 2.3"
meeting day Tuesday 
nearby market day Monday 
item:-  private collection : 224
Image © see bottom of page

evidence:-   old map:- Donald 1774 (Cmd) 
source data:-   Map, hand coloured engraving, 3x2 sheets, The County of Cumberland, scale about 1 inch to 1 mile, by Thomas Donald, engraved and published by Joseph Hodskinson, 29 Arundel Street, Strand, London, 1774.
image
D41230M.jpg
"Quakers Meeting"
building 
item:-  Carlisle Library : Map 2
Image © Carlisle Library

evidence:-   drawing:- Butler 1978
placename:-  Cockermouth Meeting House
source data:-   Cockermouth 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
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PR1504.jpg
item:-  private collection : 377
Images © Friends Historical Society

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