The Southern East Anglia (SEA) Area Quaker Meeting is made up of five local meetings.
Clacton
Quakers have been active in Essex for more than three centuries. Some eighty local Friends were imprisoned for their faith during the religious persecution of the seventeenth century, the best known of whom was James Parnell of Colchester. Many others were ridiculed, beaten and fined, but they continued to live and worship in the Quaker way.
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Colchester
Quakers have been active in Colchester for more than three centuries. Some eighty local Friends were imprisoned for their faith during the religious persecution of the seventeenth century, the best known of whom was James Parnell, many others were ridiculed, beaten and fined, but they continued to live and worship in the Quaker way.
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Earls Colne
The Society of Friends made converts in Earls Colne from 1655. A Meeting was held there before 1657, when it moved to Colne Engaine. Numbers increased in the 1660s and 1670s; a meeting house in the later Burrows Road was built in 1674 and settled in trust in 1678. There was a burial ground by 1689.
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Harwich
Harwich Meeting was originally established to provide a place of worship for Friends traveling to continental Europe. A meeting house was built in 1709 and rebuilt in 1786. It was sold in 1800. It has since been demolished. Meeting started again in November 2009 in a Friend’s house and then transferred here where it meets on the second and fourth Sunday of each month.
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Sudbury
The Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) has been active in Sudbury since the 17th century. Our Meeting House in Friars Street was built in 1805. In the 19th century a school room was built on to the front of the building.
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