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| Quaker Cottage, Keswick | ||
| Quaker Cottage | ||
| Portinscale Meeting House | ||
| Keswick Meeting House | ||
| Crosthwaite Meeting House | ||
| Street:- | Crosthwaite Road | |
| locality:- | Great Crosthwaite | |
| civil parish:- | Keswick (formerly Cumberland) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | buildings | |
| locality type:- | meeting house (ex) | |
| locality type:- | quaker meeting (ex) | |
| coordinates:- | NY26172393 | |
| 1Km square:- | NY2623 | |
| 10Km square:- | NY22 | |
| SummaryText:- | High Hill, Crosthwaite; given 1685, rebuilt 1715, sold about 1801. | |
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| evidence:- | old map:- Backhouse 1773 placename:- Keswick meeting |
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| 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. BKH2Prds.jpg labelled:- "Keswick / 7.6" meeting day Friday nearby market day Saturday item:- private collection : 224 Image © see bottom of page |
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| evidence:- | drawing:- Butler 1978 placename:- Keswick Meeting House |
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| source data:- | Keswick 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 enlargePR1505.jpg item:- private collection : 377 Image © Friends Historical Society |
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| notes:- |
There was an early meeting house at the Portinscale end of Keswick, used to 1775.
This is now Quaker Cottage. A meeting house was established in Lower Church Street,
Keswick, 1919. |
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| Butler 1978 |
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| see also:- |  meeting house, Keswick later meeting house |
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