Hartshill Friends working on their tapestry panel Photo: Photo courtesy of Hartshill Meeting
The Quakers of Hartshill
Rae Ritchie and Clare Barnett describe a journey of renewal and revival at historic Hartshill Meeting
by Rae Ritchie and Clare Barnett
21st September 2012
In 1624, George Fox was born in the small Leicestershire village of Drayton-in-the-Clay (now known as Fenny Drayton). As a young man, he tended sheep in the nearby village of Hartshill. Later in life, he returned to Hartshill and met with Nathaniel Newton, one of the first generation of Quakers.
