Quakers in Fell End

9 July 1673 Wm Fothergill of Adamthwaite and Richard Clarkson were presented to Quarter Sessions for not bringing their children to the parish church to be baptised.

14 April 1675 Thomas Fawcett was presented for burying his wife in a field.

28 June 1777 Isaac Handley of Nathwate left by his will to his son Thomas his estate called Wandall to have and to hold according to the custom of the manor of Ravenstonedale; also all his tithes of corn, grain, hay, wool, lambs, calves, foals, bees, etc. To his youngest son, Joseph, he left his estate called Howgill, consisting of Fall, Fall Parrock, Backside and Great Intake and tithes etc. "To my brother Edward Smith of Townhead, cordwainer, the building or Meeting House at Street, with a garth or burying place at Dovengill Lane Head, also a garth or burying place at Wath."

Dr. Thomas Gibson says, "Close by the road to Sedbergh, at Fell End, in what appears to be a compound of old school houses and barn, but a portion of which is really an ancient Friends' Meeting House. Just within the gate, to the left on entrance, without memorial stone or anything to mark the spot, lie the remains of several friends who have been interred here. It is a lonely, neglected place."


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