Cumberland General Meeting was laid down in June 2008. However the two constituent Area Meetings continue to work together to provide a programme of joint events and study days and to provide joint services including a newsletter and this website.
The General Meeting comprised those Quaker Meetings situated in the northern part of Cumbria. This area extends northwards from the A66 to the Scottish borders and from the Solway Firth in the west to the hills of the Pennines in the east. The General Meeting district takes in the Northern Fells of the Lake District National Park, the Cumbrian plain northward to the Solway estuary and parts of the Eden Valley and northern Pennines.
To the south, Cumberland General Meeting
bordered with Westmorland General
Meeting, which encompasses the heartland
of early Quakerism in Northern England. To the north, across
the Solway Firth, our nearest neighbouring meetings are those
in West Scotland Area
Meeting, located in the Galloway peninsula.
QUAKER QUEST
Would you like to know more about Quakers? You will be very welcome at Meeting for Worship at any of our Meetings - see the individual pages for information such as times of meetings. Alternatively you might like to come along to a Quaker Quest evening. These are evenings especially for those who would like to find out more. You will find a friendly welcome, and a chance to listen, to discuss and to ask questions. Each evening concludes with a short Meeting for Worship.
Click here for details of Quaker Quest in North and West Cumbria:
QUAKER QUEST IN NORTHERN CUMBRIA
or phone 01768 774433 QUAKER QUEST will be running in Keswick in September 2008 and in Whitehaven in October 2008
LINKS TO CONSTITUENT LOCAL MEETINGS:
WEST CUMBRIA AREA MEETING KESWICK COCKERMOUTH WHITEHAVEN PARDSHAW
NORTH CUMBRIA AREA MEETING CARLISLE PENRITH WIGTON MOSEDALE ALSTON Click here to see a map showing the locations of meetings in North and West Cumbria:
LOCATION MAP Click here for more information about Cumberland General Meeting:
MORE ABOUT CUMBERLAND GENERAL MEETING
CLICK HERE FOR OTHER QUAKER WEB SITES:
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QUAKERS IN NW ENGLANDSWARTHMOOR HALL
A QUAKER CENTRE AND PLACE OF PILGRIMAGE, ULVERSTONNORTHERN FRIENDS PEACE BOARD
A PROJECT OF NORTHERN QUAKERSGLENTHORNE
COUNTRY HOUSE AND CONFERENCE CENTRE, GRASMEREPREPARING FOR PEACE
A PROJECT OF WESTMORLAND GENERAL MEETINGQUAKER TAPESTRY
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Acknowledgements Grateful acknowledgement is made to the author, David M. Butler and the publishers, Friends Historical Society, 1999, of 'Quaker Meeting Houses of Britain' for their permission to use factual details and text, in part or abridged, relating to the history of meeting houses in the area.
Location maps on this web site are reproduced by permission of Ordnance Survey on behalf of The Controller of Her Majesty's Stationery Office. Crown Copyright. All rights reserved. Licence number: AL 100037873.
Grateful acknowledgement is made to Martin R. Bagness for assisting with map preparation.
