Eye - 3 November 2023
1652 country crossword
The area around Lancashire and Swarthmoor, near Ulverston, is the birthplace of Quakerism – it is where George Fox travelled in 1652.
It is the focus of many Quaker pilgrimages, so Eye drew inspiration from the Swarthmoor Hall guide to planning just such a trip, for a puzzle that delves into the landscape that Quakerism sprang from!
Across
6. This was the childhood home of Margaret Askew, later Margaret Fell (5, 6)
7. Between 1654 and 1767 over 200 Friends were laid to rest in this Quaker burial ground (8)
9. A 1725 Grade II* listed Quaker Meeting house surrounded by twelve acres of woodland, offering ‘winter quamping’ between November and March – like ‘glamping’ but in a Quaker Meeting house! (7)
11. Where ‘Fox’s Pulpit’ is located, near Sedbergh – George Fox spoke to a gathering of ‘Seekers’ here in 1652 (7, 4)
13. This seventeenth-century Meeting house shares a site with an old school, which now offers self catering accommodation (7)
Down
1. Bequeathed to the Religious Society of Friends in 1961 by Linton Taylor – a Yorkshire carpet manufacturer and prominent Quaker – this venue opened as a guest house in 1964 (10)
2. The home of Margaret Fell and, later, George Fox (10, 4)
3. A museum in Kendal showcases seventy-seven panels of the Quaker… (8)
4. In 1674, while the Conventicle Act forbidding nonconformist meetings was still in force, this Meeting house was built on land purchased from John Dawson (10)
5. Clitheroe Meeting’s former home was in a Quaker Meeting house built in 1777 in this village, located in the Ribble Valley (6)
8. A bit of déjà vu, friendly puzzlers, this Grade II* listed Quaker Meeting house in Ulverston is dated 1688 (10)
10. A castle where hundreds of Quakers were imprisoned during the 1660s, usually for non-payment of tithes but also for refusing to swear the oath to the crown (9)
12. George Fox ‘spied a great high hill’ and when ‘atop it’ he saw ‘a great people to be gathered’, Quaker fait
