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meeting house, Ravenstonedale
Ravenstonedale Meeting House
Fell End Meeting House
Street Meeting House
locality:-   Street
locality:-   Fell End
civil parish:-   Ravenstonedale (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   meeting house
locality type:-   quaker meeting
coordinates:-   NY73460088 (about) 
1Km square:-   NY7300
10Km square:-   NY70
references:-   Butler 1978


photograph
BXE54.jpg  ... perhaps
(taken 28.8.2012)  
photograph
CEQ23.jpg  ... perhaps
(taken 26.2.2016)  

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 36 1) 
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:-  Ravenstonedale Meeting House
placename:-  Fell End Meeting House
placename:-  Street Meeting House
source data:-   : : Quaker Administrative History "RAVENSTONEDALE, Westm, after 1974 Cumbr ... NY734008"
"1668-1793 ... Sedbergh MM"
"FELL END, Westm, after 1974 Cumbr ... see RAVENSTONEDALE"
"STREET, Westm, after 1974 Cumbr ... see RAVENSTONEDALE"
"Removed to NARTHWAITE, qv"

evidence:-   old map:- Backhouse 1773
placename:-  Ravenstondale 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
BKH2Sdbr.jpg
labelled:-  "Ravenstondale / 0.5"
meeting day Thursday 
item:-  private collection : 224
Image © see bottom of page

evidence:-   drawing:- Butler 1978
placename:-  Ravenstonedale Meeting House
source data:-   Ravenstonedale 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
PR1549.jpg
item:-  private collection : 377
Image © Friends Historical Society


photograph
BRS20.jpg "RUINED QUAKER MEETING HOUSE at / Fell End, Ravenstonedale, Kirkby Stephen. / Aug. 1924 Photo. by Molly."  courtesy of the Cross Keys
The photo is probably the stables. The meeting house itself was demolished 1899, and the stone sold. W Tunstead used the stone for a field house. The door hinges went to Kirkby Stephen.


photograph
BXU12.jpg  Painting by Edith A Hewetson b.1868 d.1948.
 

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