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Adel Quaker Meeting House and burial ground

New Adel Lane, Leeds, West Yorkshire, LS16 6AZ

  • 08 Sep 2024
  • In person
  • Pre-booking not required

Quaker Meeting House, garden and burial ground which date from the 19th century. The house will feature an exhibition about its history.

A 19th century building with an extension added around 2009. Visitors can view the meeting room set out for weekly Meetings for Worship, inspect an exhibition describing the history of the house and giving an insight into Quakerism in the locality. The burial ground features rows of resting places denoted by the traditional uniform Quaker headstones, including two graves of the War Graves Commission. There is also a garden at the rear of the house in which visitors are free to wander. There is ample parking space on sight and one parking bay for blue-badge holders. Attached to the meeting house is a caretakers cottage which, however, is not open to the public since it is privately occupied.

Timings & Tours

Sunday 08 September:
1230-1600

Location & directions

New Adel Lane, Leeds, West Yorkshire, LS16 6AZ

Directions:
New Adel Lane can be accessed from the A660 Leeds - Otley Road immediately north of Lawnswood cemetery. Adel Quaker Meeting House is approximately a quarter-of-a-mile on, to the right of a left-bend. The front of the adjoining cottage is visible on approach.
Contact on day:
William H.G. Hunt
Telephone number:
+447818130019

Booking information

Pre-booking requirement:
Pre-booking not required

Accessibility details

Full wheelchair access to the meeting house. The burial ground is rough grassland and is surrounded on three sides by a rough track, the fourth side being the vehicular drive. There is just a single disabled parking bay.

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