NHER 62807 (Monument record) - Quaker burial ground

Previously recorded under NHER 34293.

Buckingham Terrace (NHER 34293) is named after Thomas Buckingham, a Lynn merchant and Quaker who founded the Downham Market meeting in 1701, and who left the land to the Friends; at the rear (west) of the terrace is the site of a Quaker cemetery but with no headstones.
E. Rose (NLA), 12 November 2002.

The Quakers owned land and cottages in South Lynn since they were bequeathed to them by Thomas Buckingham in the late 17th century, with the cottages fronting onto the northern side of Southgate Street. Behind the cottages lay a pasture that in 1804 gained a frontage to the New Road. In 1806 this pasture was described as 'land for building' but it was not until 1821 that the Quakers applied to the Paving Commissioners for a small piece of land to level their frontage as they intended to let the site on building leases. In June 1824 it was noted that the cottages were 'in a very dilapidated condition' and on 20 June 1825 it was decided to pull down the cottages and let the site and adjoining pasture.
Information from (S1).
It is unclear when this land was in use as a burial ground, but it is still marked as such on the town plan of 1886 (S2), but is not marked on the Ordnance Survey second edition of 1905 (S3). It is shown as pasture on Rastrick's map of 1725 (S4).
A. Cattermole (King's Lynn UAD), 21 November 2018.