Photographs of Brigflatts, Marthwaite and Firbank Fell, areas with a rich history of the Quaker Movement in the Lune Valley Dales of Cumbria.
Friends Meeting House, Brigflatts, Sedbergh, Cumbria.
Following his address to a thousand people on Firbank Fell, George Fox set up regular open-air meetings for the Friends at Brigflatts, but in 1674 they bought a plot of land and illegally built a Meeting House on it. Three years later Fox returned to Brigflatts and five hundred people attended that meeting.
The entrance porch to the Friends Meeting House at Brigflatts near Sedbergh in the Western Dales of Cumbria.
The fine oak outer court door of the Meeting House was hung in 1705, thirty years after the meeting house was built.
Remains of the 1550 Sedbergh Market Cross in the garden of the Friends Meeting House at Brigflatts, near Sedbergh in the Western Dales of Cumbria.
The market cross that once stood near to St. Andrew's Church was vandalised and demolished in 1851. All that remains is this one stone. An inscription on the plinth reads: THE ABOVE STONE IS PART OF SEDBERGH MARKET CROSS 1550-1854.
The Quaker Burial Ground at Brigflatts, Sedbergh, Cumbria, UK. The headstones in the burial ground are all the same to show that all Friends are equally important in both life and death.
Snowdrops surround a mounting block beside the Quaker Burial Ground at Brigflatts, near Sedbergh in the Yorkshire Dales National Park, Cumbria.
Rawthey Bridge over the River Rawthey near Brigflatts, Sedbergh in the Western Dales of Cumbria.
The bridge was built (1657-61) by the Lancaster and Carlisle Railway Company to carry the railway over the Rawthey.
Aerial view of Firbank Fell and the Lune Valley Sedbergh.
Grayrigg Common and Blease Fell from Firbank Fell, Sedbergh in Cumbria.
A view of the Howgill Fells from Firbank Fell, Sedbergh, Cumbria.
A view of the Howgill Fells from Firbank Fell, Sedbergh, in the Yorkshire Dales National Park, Cumbria.
Left: The Calf - Centre: Arant Haw - Right: Winder.
A view of the Howgill Fells from Firbank Fell, Sedbergh in the Yorkshire Dales National Park, Cumbria.
Left to right: The Calf, Bram Rigg Top, Calders and Arant How.
Silver birch on Firbank Fell, Sedbergh in the Yorkshire Dales National Park, Cumbria.
Fox's Pulpit, Firbank Fell, Sedbergh, Cumbria,
In 1652, George Fox visited the area to meet the Westmorland Seekers, a group of people who were disillusioned with the established church. Fox stayed with the leader of the Seekers, Richard Robinson at Brigflatts and later that week preached in the grounds of Sedbergh Church. He then went on to hold a huge open-air meeting on Firbank Fell, where he preached for over three hours to a crowd of about a thousand people. This site is now regarded as the birthplace of Quakerism, The Religious Society of Friends.
Horses gather at Fox's Pulpit, Firbank Fell, Sedbergh in the Yorkshire Dales National Park, Cumbria.
The 1952 plaque on Fox's Pulpit, Firbank Fell, Sedbergh, Cumbria.
In 1652, George Fox visited the area to meet the Westmorland Seekers, a group of people who were disillusioned with the established church. Fox stayed with the leader of the Seekers, Richard Robinson at Brigflatts and later that week preached in the grounds of Sedbergh Church. He then went on to hold a huge open-air meeting on Firbank Fell, where he preached for over three hours to a crowd of about a thousand people. This site is now regarded as the birthplace of Quakerism, The Religious Society of Friends.
The 1952 plaque on Fox's Pulpit, Firbank Fell, Sedbergh, Cumbria.
In 1652, George Fox visited the area to meet the Westmorland Seekers, a group of people who were disillusioned with the established church. Fox stayed with the leader of the Seekers, Richard Robinson at Brigflatts and later that week preached in the grounds of Sedbergh Church. He then went on to hold a huge open-air meeting on Firbank Fell, where he preached for over three hours to a crowd of about a thousand people. This site is now regarded as the birthplace of Quakerism, The Religious Society of Friends.
A solitary standing gravestone in the Quaker Graveyard adjacent to Fox's Pulpit on Firbank Fell, Sedbergh, Cumbria.
In 1652 George Fox was asked to address a large gathering of 'Seekers' at the small chapel that stood on this site. Fox wouldn't go into the chapel to preach but instead spoke for three hours to a thousand strong crowd from the top of an adjacent crag, now known as Fox's Pulpit. That event is said to have started the Quaker Movement. The chapel was destroyed in a storm in the mid 19th century.
A solitary standing gravestone in the Quaker Graveyard on Firbank Fell, Sedbergh, Cumbria.
In 1652 George Fox was asked to address a large gathering of 'Seekers' at the small chapel that stood on this site. Fox wouldn't go into the chapel to preach but instead spoke for three hours to a thousand strong crowd from the top of an adjacent crag, now known as Fox's Pulpit. That event is said to have started the Quaker Movement. The chapel was destroyed in a storm in the mid 19th century.
Aerial view of Firbank Fell and Waterside Lune Viaduct, Howgill, Sedbergh, Cumbria.
Waterside Lune Viaduct, Howgill, Sedbergh in the Yorkshire Dales National Park, Cumbria.
This feat of engineering by Locke and Errington was opened in 1861. It carried the Little North Western Railway from Claham through Ingleton and Kirkby Lonsdale to Lowgill. The line closed in 1967.
Waterside Lune Viaduct, Firbank, Sedbergh in the Yorkshire Dales National Park, Cumbria.
This feat of engineering by Locke and Errington was opened in 1861. It carried the Little North Western Railway from Claham through Ingleton and Kirkby Lonsdale to Lowgill. The line closed in 1967.
Waterside Lune Viaduct, Firbank, Sedbergh in the Yorkshire Dales National Park, Cumbria.
This feat of engineering by Locke and Errington was opened in 1861. It carried the Little North Western Railway from Claham through Ingleton and Kirkby Lonsdale to Lowgill. The line closed in 1967.
A clay sculpture of George Fox, founder of the Religious Society of Friends, in the workshop of sculptor Alan Ward at Lancaster Castle in Lancashire.
Ingmire Hall, Marthwaite near Sedbergh, Cumbria.
A 16th century house built around the remains of a medieval pele tower. In the late 17th century it was home to a local Justice of the Peace called Sir John Otway who had much sympathy for the Quakers and helped to secure the release of many Friends from prison.
Kayaking down the Lune at Lincoln's Inn Bridge, Sedbergh, Cumbria.
The bridge is believed to date from the 17th century.
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'Peace', a beautiful stained glass window by William Morris in the Church of St Gregory the Great at Marthwaite near Sedbergh in Cumbria.
St Gregoroy's is now in the care of The Churches Conservation Trust.
Fortitude window by Morris & Co. in the Church of St Gregory the Great at Marthwaite near Sedbergh in Cumbria.
.St Gregoroy's is now in the care of The Churches Conservation Trust.