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Aldershaw, Grisedale
Aldershaw
locality:-   Grisedale
civil parish:-   Garsdale (formerly Yorkshire)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   buildings
coordinates:-   SD77839322
1Km square:-   SD7793
10Km square:-   SD79

hearsay:-  
Home of the Akridge Family, quakers. Agnes Akridge got into trouble for a clandestine marriage, by breaking into a meeting house, 1761. Robert Akridge was disowned in 1771, having married a woman of a 'different persuasion'; he was buried at Scale burial ground, 'not in unity', 1815.

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