We hope you enjoy exploring our modest website. For more details on Quakers in general please visit the "About Quakers" links at the bottom of this page which will take you to specific pages on the Quakers in Britain website.
Within the UK, local Quaker communities, which are called "local meetings", are organised geographically into "Area Meetings". The population is relatively sparse around the Dales and Pennines, and so this area meeting, Craven and Keighley Area Meeting, covers a relatively large area and includes five meeting houses: from rural locations in Airton and Bentham, to the small market towns of Skipton and Settle, and the larger town of Keighley in West Yorkshire.
Most of the meeting houses in our area are historic, some dating to early years of Quakerism, and are usually open during the daytime. Meetings for worship typically held on Sunday mornings and sometimes mid-week, are open to all. Please find out more about these buildings and their worshipping communities on the Local Meetings page.
People come together as an area meeting at one of the meeting houses about once a month and it is at these meetings that many aspects of our Quaker life, both business and spiritual, are developed. In addition to this, the people from all seven area meetings in Yorkshire also meet on a quarterly basis. Please visit Quakers in Yorkshire for more information on that. And then there's Quakers in the World!
Clicking on 'Quakers in Craven & Keighley' at the top left of any page on this site brings you back to this page.
Photo above: Bycliffe Road, which runs from Nidderdale to Conistone in Wharfedale. This view is accessible on a walk from Grassington via Yarnbury. Copyright Ken R Smith