Crook Quaker Burial Ground, Crook, Cumbria - Worldwide Cemeteries on Waymarking.com

According to books, there are 3 headstones remaining, but the high grass has hidden them. Could be several hundred buried here.

The high wall is broken in several places and attempts have been made to keep the animals out. Also one of the two huge slate slabs over the entrance door way has gone. Someone has built a car garage in front of the once covered entrance, but it is still possible to get in. This site is in a poor state, and need of some TLC. It is still worth visiting this small plot.

Quaker headstones, their removal.
The Yearly national Meeting in 1717 and again 1766 instructed that all headstones be removed from all Quaker burial grounds. Friends were erecting 'vain monuments' over their dead relatives graves. This decision was rescinded later (1850) and simple uniform headstones were used in each area to help relatives find their deceased. Eventually a pattern was agreed, with deceased's name, age and date of death inscribed on a simple locally made stone.

Quakers were unbaptised and were forbidden burial in "consecrated ground" or in church connected graveyards. They buried their dead on private land and would do the same for those forbidden burial in church consecrated land (unbelievers, condemned, suicides etc.).

Park down the hill at N54 20.905 W 02 51.993 where there is a scrape on gravel at side of road.

Sources: Donald A Rooksby The Man in Leather Breeches, A People to be Gathered, And Sometime Upon the Hills, and Quaker Meeting Houses of the Lake District by David M Butler.

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