Out & About …

… on the North York Moors, or wherever I happen to be.

Tag: Quakers

  • The Friends School

    The Friends School

    The blossom on the stand of cherry trees in front of the old Friends’ School has survived the overnight gales. I’ve written about role of the The Friends School in assisting Jewish refugee children from Nazi controlled Europe before, In all, up to 1940, 32 children from Austria, Germany, Czechoslovakia, and Hungary found a new…

  • Quaker Graveyard, Great Ayton

    Quaker Graveyard, Great Ayton

    Quakerism began to attract support in the North York Moors soon after its emergence after the Civil war in the mid-17th-century. Almost every dale would have its populace often sizeable and with their industrious philosophy, many soon became highly successful farmers. There is a record of George Fox, the founder of Quakerism, visiting Danby Dale.…

  • Quaker Graveyard, Great Ayton

    Quaker Graveyard, Great Ayton

    The Religious Society of Friends was first recorded in the village in 1689 with the ending official persecution when the magistrates at Thirsk issued a certificate to establish a place of worship. This would have been a room in a private house but by the turn of the century, a specific meeting house had been…