[1] In 1666, Anthony Myers of Farfield Hall, Addingham,[2] provided a plot of land to be used as a Quaker burial ground.

[3][4] Twenty-three years later, in 1689, the Act of Toleration was passed giving the right to Nonconformists to build places of worship.

[1] In the graveyard to the northeast of the meeting house are five joined chest tombs to the Myers family dated between 1687 and 1737.

[6] This style of tomb is unusual in Quaker burial grounds as it was considered to be ostentatious and was later discouraged by the movement.

[5] The building was owned by the Historic Chapels Trust who have restored it and aim to preserve it in perpetuity, as part of the physical evidence of British religious life.