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meeting house, Mislet
Mislet Meeting House
Windermere Meeting House
Street:-   Heaning Lane
locality:-   Mislet
civil parish:-   Windermere (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   meeting house
locality type:-   quaker meeting
locality type:-   school (once) 
coordinates:-   SD43239964
1Km square:-   SD4399
10Km square:-   SD49
references:-   Butler 1978


photograph
BPM41.jpg (taken 19.7.2008)  

evidence:-   text:- 
placename:-  Mislet Meeting House
placename:-  Windermere Meeting House
source data:-   : : Quaker Administrative History "MISLET, Westm, after 1974 Cumbr ... SD432996"
"1668-1822 ... Kendal MM"
"WINDERMERE (MISLET), Westm, after 1974 Cumbr ... see MISLET"

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

evidence:-   drawing:- Butler 1978
placename:-  Mislet Meeting House
source data:-   Mislet 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
PR1533.jpg
item:-  private collection : 377
Image © Friends Historical Society

evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
placename:-  Mislet Cottage
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"MISLET COTTAGE / / HEANING LANE / WINDERMERE TOWN / SOUTH LAKELAND / CUMBRIA / II / 351678 / SD4320999627"

hearsay:-  
William Williamson, died at Common Farm, Windermere, 1702 made provision for a school at the meeting house in Mislet.

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