Mosedale is a hamlet and former

civil parish In England, a civil parish is a type of administrative parish used for local government. It is a territorial designation which is the lowest tier of local government. Civil parishes can trace their origin to the ancient system of parishes, w ...

, now in the parish of

Mungrisdale Mungrisdale is a small village and civil parish in the north east of the English Lake District in Cumbria. It is also the name of the valley in which the village sits. Mungrisdale is a popular starting point for ascents of the nearby hills, s ...

in the

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district, in the county of

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, in the north west of the

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. It is on the

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, north east of

Bowscale Fell Bowscale Fell is a hill in the England, English Lake District. It rises above the village of Mungrisdale in the Northern Fells. Bowscale Fell stands at the extreme north east the Blencathra group, connected to this higher fell by the interveni ...

and south east of Carrock Fell, about one mile north of Mungrisdale. In 1931 the parish had a population of 49. In the

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the parish of Mungrisdale, comprising eight hamlets including Mosedale, had a population of 297. There is a

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meeting house in Mosedale, where meetings are held weekly in summer and fortnightly in winter. The meeting house was created in 1702 from an earlier building, was used for regular meetings until 1865, became an Anglican

chapel of ease A chapel of ease (or chapel-of-ease) is a church architecture, church building other than the parish church, built within the bounds of a parish for the attendance of those who cannot reach the parish church conveniently, generally due to trav ...

1936–1970, and was restored for use by Quakers in 1973. It is one of the earliest meeting houses in Cumbria and is associated with

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, the founder of the Quakers.

History

Mosedale was formerly a

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Caldbeck Caldbeck is a village and civil parish in Cumbria, England, historically within Cumberland, it is situated within the Lake District National Park. Part of the parish lies within the Skiddaw Group SSSI (Site of Special Scientific Interest). T ...

parish, from 1866 Mosedale was a civil parish in its own right until it was abolished on 1 April 1934 and merged with Mungrisdale.

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External links

Cumbria County History Trust: Mosedale
(nb: provisional research only – see Talk page) Hamlets in Cumbria Former civil parishes in Cumbria Mungrisdale {{Cumbria-geo-stub

History

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