Yealand Conyers
Community
The community is in the same electoral district as Yealand Redmayne and Silverdale. The Yealands and Silverdale were originally in the same manor of Yealand in Domesday Book.
Yealand Conyers has three religious institutions, the Church of England St John's and Catholic 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 the '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.
Yealand Conyers was for many years home to the noted Manchester born Quaker writer Elfrida Vipont Foulds. She was the Headmistress of the Yealand Manor Quaker Evacuation School.
Yealand-Conyers was formerly a township and chapelry in the parish of Warton, in 1866 Yealand Conyers became a separate civil parish, on 1 April 2024 the parish was abolished and merged with Yealand Redmayne to form The Yealands.
Yealand Conyers and Yealand Redmayne share a grade II listed war memorial, erected at the former parish boundary in 1920, commemorating six men and one woman who died in World War I and two men who died in World War II. It is in the form of a Latin cross on a shaft rising from a base on a plinth in a cobbled area.
Geography
Like its neighbour, Yealand Redmayne, it is north of Lancaster, and close to the border of Cumbria.
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
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Friends' Meeting House graveyard -
Yealand Old School -
Yealand War Memorial
See also
References
- ^ UK Census (2011). "Local Area Report – Yealand Conyers Parish (1170215063)". Nomis. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 17 March 2018.
- ^ Hartshorne, Susan V. The Story of Yealand Manor School. York, England: William Sessions Ltd, 2007. Print
- ^ "History of Yealand Conyers, in Lancaster and Lancashire". A Vision of Britain through Time. Retrieved 4 August 2024.
- ^ "Relationships and changes Yealand Conyers CP/Tn through time". A Vision of Britain through Time. Retrieved 4 August 2024.
- ^ "Lancashire Registration District". UKBMD. Retrieved 4 August 2024.
- ^ Historic England. "Yealand War Memorial (1427706)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 27 August 2024.
- ^ "Yealand Redmayne and Yealand Conyers". War Memorials Register. Imperial War Museums. Retrieved 27 August 2024.
External links
- Yealand Conyers: historical and genealogical information at GENUKI.
- Map sources for Yealand Conyers