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meeting house, Crook
Crook Meeting House
Warriners Yeat Meeting House
Underbarrow Meeting House
locality:-   Crook
civil parish:-   Crook (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   meeting house (gone) 
locality type:-   quaker meeting (gone) 
locality type:-   burial ground
locality type:-   quaker burial ground
coordinates:-   SD43919510
1Km square:-   SD4395
10Km square:-   SD49
references:-   Butler 1978


photograph
BSL80.jpg  Quaker burial ground c1670-1904, and site of meeting house 1711-1834.
(taken 9.4.2010)  
photograph
BPY20.jpg (taken 23.1.2009)  

evidence:-   text:- 
placename:-  Crook Meeting House
placename:-  Underbarrow Meeting House
placename:-  Warriners Yard Meeting House
source data:-   : : Quaker Administrative History "CROOK (Underbarrow), Westm, after 1974 Cumbr ... SD438931"
"1668-1834 ... Kendal MM"
"UNDERBARROW, Westm, after 1974 Cumbr ... see CROOK"
"WARRINERS YARD, Westm, after 1974 Cumbr ... see CROOK"

evidence:-   old map:- Jefferys 1770 (Wmd) 
source data:-   Map, 4 sheets, The County of Westmoreland, scale 1 inch to 1 mile, surveyed 1768, and engraved and published by Thomas Jefferys, London, 1770.
image
J5SD49NW.jpg
"Quakers Meeting"
cross 
item:-  National Library of Scotland : EME.s.47
Image © National Library of Scotland

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

evidence:-   drawing:- Butler 1978
placename:-  Crook Meeting House
source data:-   Crook 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
PR1534.jpg
item:-  private collection : 377
Image © Friends Historical Society

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