Quaker Burial Ground - Victoria Street, St Albans, UK
Posted by: Groundspeak Regular Member Master Mariner
N 51° 45.106 W 000° 20.196
30U E 683838 N 5736786
This plot of land was used as a Quaker burial ground from 1676 to 1869 and is now a small park area maintained by the local council. All headstones have been removed.
Waymark Code: WM12YM3
Location: Eastern England, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 08/08/2020
Published By:Groundspeak Regular Member jhuoni
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A small sign to the rear of the area reads:

The Burial Ground of the
Society of Friends (Quakers)
1676 - 1869

Friends meet for worship
every Sunday 10.30am at
7 Upper Lattimore Road

All are Welcome

This burial ground is maintained by
the St Albans City Council

The LLQuakers website tells us:

Records show that George Fox, the Founder of Quakerism, visited Hertfordshire in 1655 and found like-minded ‘Friends of the Truth’ established in Markyate.  By 1669, when the authorities made a survey of dissenters living in St. Albans, there were 60 Quakers ‘meeting at a hired house on Sundays and Wednesdays’.  Throughout the next ten years Quakers were imprisoned, fined and transported to the colonies for their beliefs.  It is known that at times Quakers were gaoled in St. Albans for various ‘crimes’, including failure to attend church services.

In the early 1670s persecution decreased for a while and local Quakers bought a plot of land in 1672 now accessed from Spencer Street.  Four years later, in 1676, a larger plot was purchased, which was used for some two hundred years as a Quaker burial ground.  This plot is now leased to St Albans Council and provides a pleasant public garden to the front of what used to be Police Station in Victoria Street.

City, Town, or Parish / State / Country: St Albans, Hertfordshire, UK

Approximate number of graves: Unknown

Cemetery Status: Inactive Maintained

Cemetery Website: Not listed

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