Quaker Burial Ground at Idle
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Quaker Burial Ground at Idle
Image: © John Illingworth Taken: 2 May 2020
There was no formal Friends' Meeting House in Idle but this burial ground was opened in 1690 on land donated by the Yewdall family. The first interment was that of Jeremiah Yewdall of Idle. The gravestones inside are the usual small, flat and unostentatious ones found in Quaker burial grounds.
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Image Location
Latitude
53.836712
Longitude
-1.739811