Whitley Quaker Burial Ground
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Whitley Quaker Burial Ground

Lower Whitley, Cheshire West and Chester Unitary Authority, Cheshire, England

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This is the detached burial ground of Frandley Quaker Meeting, Sandiway Lane, Northwich (please see Frandley Society of Friends Burial Ground). The web site of the Frandley Society of Friends says, "Whitley Burial Ground (Fig.5.) is located on the road between Lower Whitley on the south and Higher Whitley on the North. The National Grid Reference is SJ 61642 79691. The 618 square yard site has red sandstone walling listed at Grade II. The date of the earliest gravestone is 1686 for John Starkey; unusually for Quakers this gravestone is decorated with a shield engraved with scrolls to both side and a bird within the centre of the shield." The cemetery was begun in 1657.
This is the detached burial ground of Frandley Quaker Meeting, Sandiway Lane, Northwich (please see Frandley Society of Friends Burial Ground). The web site of the Frandley Society of Friends says, "Whitley Burial Ground (Fig.5.) is located on the road between Lower Whitley on the south and Higher Whitley on the North. The National Grid Reference is SJ 61642 79691. The 618 square yard site has red sandstone walling listed at Grade II. The date of the earliest gravestone is 1686 for John Starkey; unusually for Quakers this gravestone is decorated with a shield engraved with scrolls to both side and a bird within the centre of the shield." The cemetery was begun in 1657.

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