Friends walk to celebrate 100 years of NFPB peace witness

Friends will be walking to RAF Menwith Hill to mark one hundred years of peace witness

by The Friend Newsdesk 17th May 2013

Friends will be walking to RAF Menwith Hill to mark one hundred years of peace witness.  The walk, from Saturday 29 June to Friday 5 July, is organised by the Northern Friends Peace Board (NFPB), which was founded in 1913. The walk begins at Richmond Castle, where the ‘Richmond Sixteen’, who were conscientious objectors in the first world war, were imprisoned. It ends at RAF Menwith Hill, on the Noth Yorkshire moors, which the US air force use as an electronic communications base. It, thus, links two significant sites of peace witness that span the first hundred years of the NFPB.