Quaker Burial Ground Approximately 300 Metres North-West Of Beasting Farm

The Quaker burial ground, dated 1682, is located approximately 300 metres north-west of Beasting Farm. It features coursed squared gritstone and is a rectangular walled enclosure measuring about 10 by 15 metres, with a gateway at the north end of the west side. The walls are approximately 2 metres high, with large quoins at the south-west and south-east corners, and flat capstones. The gateway has chamfered quoined jambs and a lintel inscribed with '1682'.

Inside, there is a chamfered window mullion built into the inner face of the north wall, but there are no grave stones present. The absence of original quoins at the north-west and north-east corners, along with the reused mullion in the north wall, suggests that the enclosure originally extended further north and may have included a house. Dacre was the centre of the main concentration of Nidderdale Quakers in the late 17th century. In 1696, a new meeting house was built at Dacre, which went out of use in the early 19th century and was later demolished, although burials continued at this site until the mid-19th century. It is possible that the meeting house was located on the north side of the burial ground, and its demolition may have led to the reconstruction of the north wall of the graveyard.