Newark Meeting
Chris Rose writes about a new Meeting in Newark-On-Trent
Many Friends will have driven past Newark-on-Trent as they travel north or south along the A1. Newark though, as far as we can tell, has never had a regular Quaker Meeting. In the 1650s and 60s the villages to the north of Newark along the River Trent were hotbeds of Quakerism. Trentside Monthly Meeting was at one time the largest Monthly Meeting in the East Midlands, but of Newark there is little mention. The only record we have so far found is of two Meetings held in 1659…
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