Quaker Burial Grounds

The Quaker Burial Grounds represent a quiet chapter in Dartmoor's religious history. These modest sites mark where members of the Society of Friends were interred, often in isolated locations across the moor—a reflection of their separatist faith and the limited acceptance they faced in conventional parish burial practices.

Walking to these grounds, you encounter the unadorned landscape that Quakers themselves valued: open moorland with minimal markers, stripped of the ornament found in village churchyards. The sites speak to resilience and conviction, to people who chose to worship and rest according to their beliefs, even at the edge of settled England.