Barton Meeting was first recorded in 1669, as part of Malton Monthly Meeting. It took in a group of villages to the south west of Malton, including Crambe, Bulmer, Sheriff Hutton, Strensall and Thornton-le-Clay, as well as Barton. Its members included Christopher Halliday, Thomas Agar, Ralph Green, John Hicks, Christopher Hardisty, Michael Nicholson, John Pickering and Thomas Scott. Goods worth 21 pounds were taken from John Hicks in 1670/1 for hosting a meeting at his house in Sheriff Hutton. Meeting places were registered in the parish in 1689 and 1700 (the home of John Priestman). A Meeting House was built on the north side of King Street, Thornton-le-Clay in 1702, and the Meeting subsequently renamed. In 1788 it became part of the newly formed Pickering Monthly Meeting, and in 1827 was transferred to York Monthly Meeting. It was closed in 1861.
From the guide to the Records of Thornton le-Clay Preparative Meeting of the Society of Friends, 1761-1911, (GB 206 Leeds University Library)
