Old Cumbria Gazetteer

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	meeting house, Garsdale
	Garsdale Meeting House
	Birkrigg Meeting House
	Raygill Meeting House
locality:-	Raygill
locality:-	Garsdale valley
civil parish:-	Garsdale (formerly Yorkshire)
county:-	Cumbria
locality type:-	meeting house
locality type:-	quaker meeting
coordinates:-	SD76659020 (?)
1Km square:-	SD7690
10Km square:-	SD79
references:-	Butler 1978
	BWZ14.jpg (taken 27.7.2012)
evidence:-	text:-  placename:-  Garsdale Meeting House placename:-  Birkrigg Meeting House placename:-  Raygill Meeting House
source data:-	: : Quaker Administrative History "GARSDALE, Yorks WR, after 1974 Cumbr ... SD767902" "1690-1860 ... Sedbergh MM" "1868-1900 ... Sedbegrh MM" "BIRKRIGG, Yorks WR, after 1974 Cumbr ... see GARSDALE" "RAYGILL, Lancs, after 1974 Cumbr ... see GARSDALE"
evidence:-	old map:- Backhouse 1773 placename:-  Garsdale 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. BKH2Sdbr.jpg labelled:-  "Garsdale / 0.5" meeting day Thursday  item:-  private collection : 224 Image © see bottom of page
evidence:-	drawing:- Butler 1978 placename:-  Garsdale Meeting House
source data:-	Garsdale 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   click to enlarge PR1548.jpg item:-  private collection : 377 Image © Friends Historical Society
hearsay:-	Converted from a farm house belonging to John Fawcett, 1703-04, and extended later. Meetings were already well established 'without doors' or in local houses. The meeting ceased 1901.

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