Eye - 30 May 2014
From walking Conchiess Road to reaching out through witness
Conchies’ Road
Walking boots and anoraks were donned on 10 May as around two dozen Friends in Devon strode along ‘Conchies’ Road’.
On the Saturday before International Conscientious Objectors Day, Friends from Exeter and Tavistock Meetings walked ‘along a mostly dead straight, often rather rough, road that runs for about a mile and a half to the south-east of Princetown in Devon’.
Richard Oliver, of Exeter Meeting, explained: ‘The road was built by conscientious objectors (COs), including many Quakers, who were held in Dartmoor Prison during the first world war. They had refused alternative service, such as the Friends Ambulance Unit, and were set to work building the road.
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