Quaker history

New Earswick, York: The Model Village Joseph Rowntree Built Without a Pub

A chocolate manufacturer handed two architects 150 acres of fields north of York and told them to build something no Victorian landlord had tried before. Joseph Rowntree could have built cheap terraces and called it...

Hutton-le-Hole: The North Yorkshire Village Where Sheep Have Right of Way

A moorland settlement with 198 people, a Quaker past, and one of the best open-air museums in the north, for visitors who look past the sheep. Hutton-le-Hole does not need explaining to people who have...

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