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Loneing-Dent Quaker Burial Ground

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Location	:	Dent, South Lakeland District, England
Coordinate	:	54.2785440, -2.4570070
Description	:	The area around Sedbergh, Kendal and Preston Patrick is known as 'the 1652 country', where Quakerism was born as an organised movement. George Fox, on reaching Sedbergh in summer 1652, found an existing community of Seekers led by dissenting preachers, who were particularly receptive to his message. The Westmorland Seekers formed the nucleus of the Valiant Sixty, the band of preachers who carried the Quaker message beyond the north of England in the mid 1650s. They were also crucial in developing the structure of the Society of Friends. Sedbergh Monthly Meeting dates from 1668 and has always been part of... Read More	The area around Sedbergh, Kendal and Preston Patrick is known as 'the 1652 country', where Quakerism was born as an organised movement. George Fox, on reaching Sedbergh in summer 1652, found an existing community of Seekers led by dissenting preachers, who were particularly receptive to his message. The Westmorland Seekers formed the nucleus of the Valiant Sixty, the band of preachers who carried the Quaker message beyond the north of England in the mid 1650s. They were also crucial in developing the structure of the Society of Friends. Sedbergh Monthly Meeting dates from 1668 and has always been part of Westmorland Quarterly Meeting, although it covers part of the historic West Riding. An unsuccessful attempt to persuade Westmorland to transfer the Monthly Meeting to Yorkshire Quarterly Meeting was made in 1693. Its original constituent Preparative Meetings were Brigflatts, Dent (later Lea Yeat), Garsdale and Ravenstonedale (later Narthwaite). Of these only Brigflatts has survived to the present day. The others were discontinued in the early 1900s. Sedbergh had its own Allowed Meeting under the care of Brigflatts for a period from 1862 to 1892, but this was the only new Meeting to form in 250 years. Reflecting this, in 1903 the Monthly Meeting merged with Kendal to form Kendal and Sedbergh Monthly Meeting. This is still in existence. George Fox visited Stone House in Dentdale in 1652 and although he was not particularly well received, the first Friends in the area were convinced at that time, including brothers Thomas and George Mason. They were few in number and belonged initially to Brigflatts Meeting. The movement spread through the dale after the preaching of Gervase Benson, Thomas Taylor and George Harrison in the mid 1650s. Meetings were regularly held at the homes of Alexander Hebblethwaite, William Mason, Thomas and Jason Greenwood, Anthony Mason, and Richard Harrison, and they were often fined as a result. The number of Friends in Dent increased in the early 1670s, despite a period of persecution, and in 1681 a separate Preparative Meeting was formally settled, as part of Sedbergh Monthly Meeting. The Meeting suffered renewed persecution during its early years, mainly at the hands of Richard Trotter, a public notary for the bishop's court. A house in Loneing was bought for a Meeting House in 1682, and rebuilt in 1701. There was also a burial ground across the lane. Another Meeting House was built in 1703 at Lea Yeat [otherwise known as Cowgill], financed by Friends in Kirkthwaite, so that worship took place in two locations until around 1800, when Friends ceased to meet in Loneing. The once vibrant Meeting was in decline by this point, suffering from the impact of migration from the dales. The Meeting continued as Lea Yeat until 1911, when it was discontinued. It had become part of Kendal and Sedbergh Monthly Meeting in 1903. - H Robberts, Researching Yorkshire Quaker history (Yorkshire Quaker Heritage Project, 2003). - D Boulton, Early Friends in Dent (Dales History Monographs, 1986). - Ms. 'The breaking forth of truth in Dent', by Richard Harrison, c.1701 - Ms. 'The building of Dent and Leyet Meeting Houses', no date

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1. Dent Methodist Churchyard
Dent, South Lakeland District, England
Coordinate: 54.2786300, -2.4569800

2. St Andrew Churchyard
Dent, South Lakeland District, England
Coordinate: 54.2781540, -2.4542310

3. Dent Zion Chapel
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4. Saint John the Evangelist Churchyard
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6. Frostrow Methodist Chapel Churchyard
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7. St. John the Baptist Churchyard
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8. Saint Andrews Churchyard
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14. St Gregory Churchyard
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15. St Bartholomew Churchyard
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16. St John the Evangelist Churchyard
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17. St Leonard Churchyard
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18. Holy Trinity Churchyard
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19. Holy Trinity Churchyard
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20. St Peter's Churchyard
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Coordinate: 54.2384190, -2.6118450

21. Saint Peter's Churchyard
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Coordinate: 54.1836860, -2.5485980

22. St Mary the Virgin Churchyard
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Coordinate: 54.2036550, -2.5976790

23. St Oswald Churchyard
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Coordinate: 54.1573600, -2.4830810

24. St Mary Churchyard
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