Colthouse Friends Meeting House- Society of Friends

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Friends Meeting House,
Colthouse
Lancashire

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Burial ground

Burial ground

Entrance to Burial ground

Burial ground entrance

Cemeteries

The meeting house has a graveyard. Seventeen of the earliest memorials were recorded in 1892 by Henry Swainson Cowper in his short book "The Monumental Inscriptions in the parish church and churchyard of Hawkshead, Lancashire and in the burial grounds of Satterthwaite, the Baptists at Hawkshead Hill and the Quakers at Colthouse".

Church History

It was founded before 1658. The building dates from 1688. The nearby graveyard (which has stone seating in the walls) was acquired in 1669.

Church Records

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Original registers
Early registers in National Archives, London (microfilm copies at Cumbria Record Office, Barrow). They predate the building of the meeting house. Further records, including early minute books, at the Cumbria Record Office, Barrow:

Maps

The church is located at OS grid reference SD358981. You can see this on maps provided by:

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