Low Row

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Low Row
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54°22′33″N 2°01′51″W / 54.37593°N 2.03088°W / 54.37593; -2.03088

Low Row is a village in

B6270.[1] To the east, Low Row merges with the settlement of Feetham
.

A working farm, Hazel Brow Farm, is open to visitors and 'The Punch Bowl', a stone inn dated 1638, is by the main road.[2]

History

The name Low Row comes from the Norse "The Wra" (a nook).[3] The surname "Raw" is associated with the village.[4] The village was raided by Jacobites in 1745, and bodies probably from that raid are buried at the church in Low Row.[2]

On 5 July 2014, the Tour de France Stage 1 from Leeds to Harrogate passed through the village.[5]

Smarber Chapel and Low Row United Reformed Church

Puritan sympathiser, in around 1690 Wharton converted part of the Smarber lodge into a chapel for ‘Protestant Dissenters’.[7]
He particularly had the needs of the local lead miners in mind.

It was a small, simple building; the lower part of the dry-stone wall remains and shows evidence of plaster and the location of a window. At the east end, an adjoining barn still stands. This also shows traces of plaster and windows and is considered[8] originally to have been a cottage attached to the chapel. It is known[9][10] that Wharton bought land near Kirkby Stephen, the income from which was to support a minister at Smarber.

Congregational in 1867, during the 50-year ministry of John Boyd.[11] He also supervised a major rebuild in 1874. This cost over £300 and resulted in the building as seen today.[12] Now part of the United Reformed Church, an active congregation continues to worship in the chapel and ‘pilgrimages’ to the former building take place from time to time.[13]

References

  1. ISBN 0-7112-2636-9
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    ISBN 1-84306-209-7
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  3. ISBN 1-85331-197-9
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  4. ^ Ucko, Peter J.; Layton, Robert (2004). The Archaeology and Anthropology of Landscape: Shaping Your Landscape. Routledge. p. 69.
  5. ^ "Tour de France Stage 1". Archived from the original on 25 July 2014. Retrieved 15 July 2014.
  6. ^ Wadsworth, K W, Philip, Lord Wharton – Revolutionary Aristocrat? Journal of the United Reformed Church History Society Volume 4 No 8 May 1991(being the 1990 Annual Lecture of the Society)
  7. ^ Stell, Christopher An inventory of nonconformist chapels and meeting-houses in the north of England 1994 Page 215
  8. ^ Historic England. "Monument No. 595356". Research records (formerly PastScape). Retrieved 21 September 2014.
  9. ^ Dale, Bryan, The Good Lord Wharton, revised edition 1906
  10. ^ Whitehead, T. History of the Dales Congregational Churches, Keighley 1930. p.151.
  11. ^ The Christian World 27 August 1875
  12. ^ A Church Renewed, Low Row United Reformed Church, 1974
  13. ^ Conran, Elizabeth, Dissent in the Two Dales 1662–2012, 2012

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