Crosslands
Crosslands was the name of John and Anne Audland’s home, near Sedbergh in the extreme northwest corner of Yorkshire. They were living at Crosslands when George Fox came on a June day in 1652 and preached to a thousand outside a chapel on nearby Firbank Fell. George Fox visited the Audlands, then went on to preach at Kendal, Underbarrow, Lindale, Ulverstone, and at Swarthmore Hall, where the Quaker movement was born.
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We live in a Kendal-Crosslands Community – one of four: Kendal at Longwood, Crosslands, Cartmel, and Coniston. The original place names of our four communities are in the Lake District in northwest England. Historically divided among three counties – Cumberland, Westmoreland, and Lancashire – it is now completely within Cumbria. The total area of 912 square miles, includes the deepest and largest lakes and the highest mountains in England.