Yealand Conyers
| Yealand Conyers | |
| Lancashire | |
|---|---|
 New Inn | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | SD503746 |
| Location: | 54°9’54"N, 2°45’40"W |
| Data | |
| Population: | 190 (2011[1]) |
| Post town: | Carnforth |
| Postcode: | LA5 |
| Dialling code: | 01524 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | Lancaster |
| Parliamentary constituency: |
Morecambe and Lunesdale |
Yealand Conyers is a village in northern Lancashire, close to the border with Westmorland.
Community
The community is close to Yealand Redmayne and Silverdale. The Yealands and Silverdale were originally in the same manor of Yealand in the Domesday Book.
Yealand Conyers has three religious institutions, the Church of England St John's and Catholic and St Mary's but is particularly of note for its early support of Quakerism. Richard Hubberthorne, one of the early Quaker preachers was from the Yealands. George Fox preached a sermon in the village in 1652 and the village's Meeting House dates from 1692. The Quaker's Old School is today used as a simple hostel and can host people visiting '1652 country'.
The village has both a manor house and a stately home Leighton Hall. The bulk of the Leighton Moss RSPB reserve is in Yealand Conyers but main visitor access is from Silverdale.
Geography
Like its neighbour, Yealand Redmayne, it is north of Lancaster, and close to the border of Westmorland.
To the north is Yealand Redmayne and beyond that is Beetham and Milnthorpe, to its north-east is Holme and Arnside, with the River Kent to the north-west while Warton is to the south.
Gallery
St Mary's Church
Friends' Meeting House graveyard
Yealand Old School
References
Outside links
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("Wikimedia Commons" has material about Yealand Conyers) |
