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meeting house, Beckfoot
Beckfoot Meeting House
Beckfoot in Abbeyholme Meeting House
locality:-   Beckfoot
civil parish:-   Holme St Cuthbert (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   meeting house
locality type:-   quaker meeting
locality type:-   burial ground
locality type:-   quaker burial ground
coordinates:-   NY09324962 (?) 
1Km square:-   NY0949
10Km square:-   NY04
references:-   Butler 1978

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 27 7) 
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:-  Beckfoot Meeting House
placename:-  Abbey Holme Meeting House
source data:-   : : Quaker Administrative History "BECKFOOT, Cumb, after 1974 Cumbr ... NY093496"
"1668-1940 ... Holm MM"
"ABBEY HOLME, Cumb, after 1974 Cumbr ... see BECKFOOT"

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

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