Friends Meeting House
After 1850 fire.
By Norman Phillips
The Friends ( Quakers) were active in Ashwell in the 18th century.Their meeting house was a timber framed building in Back Street. ( This part of Back Street is now called Silver Street.) It was set back from the road and was adjacent to their burial ground. Both are shown on the 1841 tithe map. It is believed that by 1850 the meeting house was no longer used.
The great fire of Ashwell in Feb 1850 destroyed most of the meeting house, and it was never rebuilt. The picture is of the meeting house after the fire. Its position was roughly at the top of the steps which lead from Silver Street to Angell's Meadow. To the right is the walled area of the burial ground, the headstones rather overgrown.
This page was added on 11/07/2011.