Fox’s Pulpit, Firbank Fell
Historical Environment Record No:
MYD36730
Parish:
Sedbergh
OS Grid Reference:
Dale:
Description
Fox’s Pulpit, Firbank Fell MYD36730 (c) YDNPA, 2023
George Fox, the first Quaker, travelled the north of England in 1652 spreading the word to his new ‘Friends in the Truth’. When he reached Sedbergh in June of that year he visited a ruined chapel on Firbank Fell and preached to more than a thousand people from rocks nearby. This place became known as Fox’s Pulpit. In 1952, the tercentenary year of the founding of the Quaker movement, a plaque was put up with Fox’s own words on it, “Let Your Lives Speak!”
Fox’s Pulpit, Firbank Fell MYD36730 (c) YDNPA, 2023
Source:
Rooksby, Donald A (1994) The Man in Leather Breeches. The Quakers in North-west England:1. Colwyn Bay: The Author