Old Cumbria Gazetteer

---

	place:-	Grayrigg Meeting House
	place:-	Beckhouses meeting House
	place:-	Beckhouses
	locality:-	Beck Houses
	parish	Grayrigg parish, once in Westmorland
	county:-	Cumbria
		building/s; meeting house; quaker meeting
	coordinates:-	SD58079633
	10Km square:-	SD59
	1Km square	SD5896
		meeting house, Grayrigg -- Beck Houses -- Grayrigg -- Cumbria / -- 7.5.2010
	old map:-	Backhouse 1773
		labelled:-
		Grayrig / 0.4
		meeting day Wednesday
	other name:-	Grayrig meeting
	locality:-	Grayrig
	locality:-	Kendal
	county:-	Westmoreland
	date:-	1773
	period:-	18th century, late; 1770s
	old print:-	LMS 1920s
		Guide book, LMS Route Book no.3, The Track of the Royal Scot, part 1 London Euston to Carlisle, by Edmund Vale, published by the London Midland and Scottish Railway, LMS, 1920s.
		Quakers' Meeting House, Grayrigg, drawn by R M Hutchings, published in the LMS Route Book No.3, The Track of the Royal Scot, by the London Midland and Scottish Railway, LMS, 1920s.
	date:-	1920=1929
	period:-	1920s
	source:-	OS County Series (Wmd 34)
		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
		at Beck Houses
	date:-	1860=1869
	period:-	19th century, late; 1860s
		photographs
		meeting house, Grayrigg -- Beck Houses -- Grayrigg -- Cumbria / -- Skewput. -- 7.5.2010
		meeting house, Grayrigg -- Beck Houses -- Grayrigg -- Cumbria / -- Finial. -- 7.5.2010
	hearsay	Built 1696; burial ground purchased 1707; extended 1713; closed 1846. New meeting house and cottage built 1871; closed 1952.
	Old Cumbria Gazetteer - JandMN: 2008

  Lakes Guides menu.

---

©  Martin and Jean Norgate: 2012
  email:- JandMN@norgate.freeserve.co.uk
  Other projects

  Geography Department, Portsmouth University