Quaker Meeting House, Bromham

A meeting existed in Bromham by 1677 and earliest deed of a meeting house is for 1682. The meeting was broken up in 1684 by Thomas Wyatt, the rector, and two justices of the peace and some of the Friends imprisioned. From 1689, after the Act of Toleration, things proved easier and a licence for a meeting house was granted in 1690. That the Friends were prosperous and influential in Bromham at this time is indicated by the license granted in July 1707. It was for a meeting house at the dwelling house and outhouses of William Smith, Senior, of Bromham House. The Friends prospered moderately in Bromham in rhe first part of the 18th century but then declined. In 1814 there was only one left in the village and the meeting house was closed and later demolished in 1863.