Yealand Conyers

Yealand Conyers
Yealand Conyers
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Area	6.40 km2 (2.47 sq mi)
Population	190 (Parish, 2011)
• Density	30/km2 (78/sq mi)
OS grid reference	SD503746
Civil parish	The Yealands;
District	Lancaster;
Shire county	Lancashire;
Region	North West;
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	CARNFORTH
Postcode district	LA5
Dialling code	01524
Police	Lancashire
Fire	Lancashire
Ambulance	North West
UK Parliament	Morecambe and Lunesdale;
	List of places UK England Lancashire54°09′54″N 2°45′40″W / 54.165°N 2.761°W

Yealand Conyers is a village in the civil parish of The Yealands, in the Lancaster district, in the county of Lancashire, England. In 2011 the former parish of Yealand Conyers had a population of 190.

Community

The community is in the same electoral district as Yealand Redmayne and Silverdale. The Yealands and Silverdale were originally in the same manor of Yealand in Domesday Book.

Yealand Conyers has three religious institutions, the Church of England St John's and Catholic St Mary's but is particularly of note for its early support of Quakerism. Richard Hubberthorne, one of the early Quaker preachers was from the Yealands. George Fox preached a sermon in the village in 1652 and the village's Meeting House dates from 1692. The Quaker's Old School is today used as a simple hostel and can host people visiting the '1652 country'.

The village has both a manor house and a stately home Leighton Hall. The bulk of the Leighton Moss RSPB reserve is in Yealand Conyers but main visitor access is from Silverdale.

Yealand Conyers was for many years home to the noted Manchester born Quaker writer Elfrida Vipont Foulds. She was the Headmistress of the Yealand Manor Quaker Evacuation School.^[2]

Yealand-Conyers was formerly a township and chapelry in the parish of Warton,^[3] in 1866 Yealand Conyers became a separate civil parish,^[4] on 1 April 2024 the parish was abolished and merged with Yealand Redmayne to form The Yealands.^[5]

Yealand Conyers and Yealand Redmayne share a grade II listed war memorial, erected at the former parish boundary in 1920, commemorating six men and one woman who died in World War I and two men who died in World War II. It is in the form of a Latin cross on a shaft rising from a base on a plinth in a cobbled area.^[6]^[7]

Geography

Like its neighbour, Yealand Redmayne, it is north of Lancaster, and close to the border of Cumbria.

To the north is Yealand Redmayne and beyond that is Beetham and Milnthorpe, to its north east is Holme and Arnside, with the River Kent to the north west while Warton is to the south.