Rathmell

Rathmell is a village and civil parish in the Craven district of North Yorkshire, England. It is close to the River Ribble and about 3 miles south of Settle. Other towns and villages nearby include Wigglesworth, Tosside, Giggleswick and Long Preston. It is the birthplace of Richard Frankland [1630-1698] , the nonconformist divine,who having been ordained by presbyters under the Cromwellian regime, when he was subsequently ejected from his ministry at the Restoration,retired home to Rathmell and here founded a Dissenting Academy which migrated to Manchester after Richard Frnkland's death. This academy was the germ of Manchester College, Oxford [now Harris Manchester College] . The location of the original Academy at Rathmell is marked by a memorial plaque on the end-one of a small terrace of cottages which still bears the name College Fold".

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