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List of Quaker Meetings in Yorkshire
This list covers the period from the 1660s to the mid-20th century. More detailed information about the history and surviving records of each Meeting is provided by the location register.
- Monthly Meetings in existence up to 1669
- Monthly Meetings created by reform in March 1669
- Later changes in the East Riding | North Riding | West Riding
A digitised version of James Backhouse's 1773 map covering the Quarterly Meetings of Lancashire, Westmorland, Cumberland, Northumberland, Durham and York is available on the website of the Pictures in Print project.
A number of sources have been used in compiling this list:
- List of Meeting records and Gazetteer of Quaker Meetings, both held at Friends House Library
- Lists and maps of Meetings in Yorkshire, 17th-19th centuries, VI 11, Clifford Street archive, Leeds University Library; the list dating from the reform of March 1669 is transcribed in Journal of the Friends Historical Society, 1905, vol. II no. 1 pp.33-36, no. 2 pp.73-76 & no.3 pp.101-103, and an edited version, with a similar list from 1665, is in W Pearson Thistlethwaite, Yorkshire Quarterly Meeting 1665-1966 (1979), appendix 2
- 'A map of the Monthly and Particular Meetings ... belonging to the Quarterly Meeting of York in the year 1669', appendix IV, in JW Rowntree, Essays and addresses (1905)
