Quakers In Warminster

Extract from The Changing Face Of Warminster by Wilfred Middlebrook, published in 1971:

By the side of this lane [from Bugley to Cley Hill], well up beneath the shadow of Cley Hill, and now ploughed up into oblivion, was an old Quaker burial ground.

There were several Quakers in Warminster in the hey-day of the clothing industry, with a Meeting House in Common Close that was afterwards a malthouse.

The last Quaker in the town was George Gardiner who died in 1795, but two other Quakers were brought some distance in the nineteenth century and buried in this tiny graveyard at Leynes, near Bugley; a graveyard some fifteen yards long and seven wide, enclosed with a low stone wall, near a few trees. No trace now remains.

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