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KELD-IN-SWALEDALE
UNITED REFORMED CHURCH

Photo of Keld URC

Keld is a tiny village
at the top of Swaledale in North Yorkshire.


Swaledale is within the Yorkshire Dales National Park, and an increasingly popular destination for holiday visitors. Our church building is in the bottom of the village, set within its own churchyard. It is near where a short path leads to the Pennine Way and the Coast to Coast long-distance footpath. Many visitors to Keld arrive on foot.

 
A Wainwright in his famous Walking Guides describes Keld and our chapel:
The little cluster of stone buildings at Keld, tidily yet haphazardly arranged along its only 'street', is attractively situated on a headland overlooking the Swale. Little has changed here for generations past and proud dates and names of proud men adorn the doorways and walls and even the chapel belfry: a sundial measures the hours but time is measured in centuries at Keld.		sundial

Worship is held on alternate Sundays, normally at 2.00pm.


Dates for services for the middle part of 2008 are:
  • June 1 (Songs of Praise, led by Dr Duncan Bythell and the Rev Julie Martin) 15 and 29
  • July 13 & 27
  • August 3 (10.30am Joint Service at Barnard Castle) and 17 & 31
We always aim to provide a welcome for visitors of all ages.
Don't worry about coming in your hiking boots: we are used to that.

The old school in Keld, together with the Institute building and former Manse, have been converted into the Keld Centre which offers self-catering, hostel-style, accommodation for church youth groups, uniformed organisations, adult walking parties, and anyone else who would like to come.
Currently the Keld Centre is being renovated and up-graded and is not available for booking.

Click here for a list of ministers.

Click here for some extracts from old minute books, etc.

Ministry

We share our minister, the Rev Julie Martin, with Low Row and Barnard Castle United Reformed Churches.
There is an account of her induction service here.
The church is also served by three Elders.

Keld United Reformed Church is a part of:-

Our sister churches within the Two Dales Pastorate of the United Reformed Church are:

Barnard Castle United Reformed Church.
Low Row United Reformed Church.

 

These pages are maintained on behalf of the church by Gillian Bobbett who may be E-mailed from here.

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The photo at the top of this page was taken by John Little of Reeth.
The drawing of the sundial is from A Wainwright's Coast to Coast Guide.