Mankinholes Meeting was settled in the 1650s, after Thomas Goodaire and Thomas Taylor preached in the area. In 1665 it was recorded under the name of Brighouse and Mankinholes, within Pontefract Monthly Meeting. In 1669, it became independent of Brighouse, within Brighouse Monthly Meeting. Its members at that time included Thomas and Richard Sutcliffe, John Whaley, Richard Holden, John Fielding [Fielden], Joshua Smith and Henry Dyson. Meetings were held mainly at the Sutcliffe family farm in Mankinholes, until the first Meeting House was built in 1696 at Tenter Croft in Shewbroad. It was bought by Friends three years' later, enlarged in 1785 and in use until c.1811. In 1792, the name of the Meeting was changed to Todmorden and in 1807, it was transferred to Marsden Monthly Meeting, within Lancashire Quarterly Meeting. Friends began to meet in Todmorden in the early 19th century, purchasing land at Bank Top, Honeyholes in 1808, as the site for a Meeting House which opened in 1811. Its status was reduced to an Allowed Meeting in 1918, becoming a full Preparative Meeting again in 1929. It closed in 1964 and after this point the Meeting House was sold. The Meeting re-opened for the period 1983 to 1988, as part of Brighouse Monthly Meeting.
From the guide to the Records of Todmorden Preparative Meeting of the Society of Friends, 1700-1994, (GB 206 Leeds University Library)
