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Birks Chapel, Warcop
Birks Chapel
locality:-   Chapel Wood (near) 
civil parish:-   Warcop (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   chapel (once) 
coordinates:-   NY71901509
1Km square:-   NY7115
10Km square:-   NY71
references:-   OS County Series

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 15 16) 
placename:-  Birks Chapel
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.
"Birks Chapel"

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.
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"Methodist Meeting"
cross paty; chapel 
item:-  National Library of Scotland : EME.s.47
Image © National Library of Scotland

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