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A small hamlet in the middle of no where exciting?
Meeting House & Burial Ground
Toadhole Furnace Quaker Meeting House, with Burial Ground
The Quaker meeting house and burial ground are now closed, see link below for more informaion.
A small burial ground is in the grassy area of the nearest cottage.
The Quakers, in the infancy of their Society were buried in their gardens or orchards, or in fields and premises of one another. They had, at that time, no grave-yards of their own, and they refused to be buried in those of the Church, lest they should acknowledge the validity of the human appointment of the priesthood, the propriety of payment for gospel labour and the peculiar holiness of consecrated ground. This refusal to be buried within the precincts of the Church was considered as the bearing of their testimony for Truth. In the process of time, they raised their meeting houses and burial grounds; sometimes these were at a distance from each other, such that, in later years, they chose to be buried in local cemeteries and, today, an increasing number choose to be cremated.
From: geograph - https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2172277
who also references the web link below.
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