Friends Meeting House, Tirril

'History is not the past - it is the method we have evolved of organizing our ignorance of the past.' (Hilary Mantel)
 
Meeting house and Quaker burial ground.
Built in 1731 (but says 1733 over the porch). Thomas Wilkinson of Yanworth contributed to it being built and is buried there, as is, Charles Gough the artist who died on Helvellyn and was immortalised in poems by both Walter Scott and Wordsworth and John Slee, the mathematician.

That's pretty much the history that we know of the building.
Now it is a private house, somewhat sadly dilapidated, prone to flooding.

I listened to Hilary Mantel's Reith lecture on iPlayer this evening...bit tired now to digest it properly but it got me thinking about us 'fallible and flaky human beings' and our reaching out to the dead to interpret the lives of the living and to build and make sense of our personal and collective histories.