Quaker Burial Ground in Evesham, Worcestershire

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28 Cowl Street,
Evesham
Worcestershire
WR11 4PL

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80 Memorials
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"By indenture of lease, dated 1st January, 1676, Elizabeth Young,of Hampton, in consideration of £52, demised to James Wall, of Evesham,and his assigns, two messuages, with cherry-orchard and garden in Cowl Street,Evesham, from December 21st, for 2000years. The orchard was converted into aburial-ground, and a meeting-house was formed out of one of the messuages."

Although the site was acquired in 1676 burials may have only taken place here from 1721. An additional piece of land was donated in 1731 by Ann and Anthony Smith.

The burial ground, the meeting house, are included on a burial plan which records 93 burials between 1799 and 1908 .

There are now about 25 gravestones (all laid flat apart from one which is propped against a boundary wall); they date (where legible) from

the late nineteenth and the early twentieth centuries. There is also a 2004

memorial plaque (laid flat like a gravestone). The burial ground is now

maintained as a peace garden under a formal maintenance plan. In the last few years a boundary wall has been rebuilt.

An earlier burial ground at Bengeworth was acquired in 1675 . It was sold in 1838 and is now the site of the gardens of

the Northwick Arms Hotel.