# Stapleton Colony

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The **Stapleton Colony**, based in [Stapleton](/source/Stapleton,_Selby), North Yorkshire, is a [Christian pacifist](/source/Christian_pacifism) and [anarchist](/source/Christian_anarchism) community, and the only remaining colony of the [Brotherhood Church](/source/Brotherhood_Church).[1] By 2016 the population of the colony had declined to four residents.[2]

In 1897 several members of the Brotherhood Church, some from a [Quaker](/source/Quaker) background, moved to [Leeds](/source/Leeds). The receipt of a legacy left to a member, Lillian Ferris, enabled the group to relocate to a seven and a half acre [smallholding](/source/Smallholding) at Stapleton in 1921.[3][4]

The Stapleton community are [vegetarian](/source/Vegetarian), grow much of their own [organic food](/source/Organic_food) and attempt to live independently from the [government](/source/Government). They are affiliated to the [Peace Pledge Union](/source/Peace_Pledge_Union), [Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament](/source/Campaign_for_Nuclear_Disarmament) and [War Resisters' International](/source/War_Resisters'_International).[5] Residents have included Len W. Gibson (1919–2007) who was a lifelong peace campaigner and [conscientious objector](/source/Conscientious_objector).[6]

## References

1. [Brotherhood Church](/source/Brotherhood_Church). ["The Brotherhood Church"](http://www.thebrotherhoodchurch.org/intro.htm) The Brotherhood Church originated as a Christian anarchist pacifist community

1. ["Life at One of England's Last Tolstoyan Communes"](http://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/life-at-one-of-englands-last-tolstoyan-communes). *[The New Yorker](/source/The_New_Yorker)*

1. ["Brotherhood Church"](http://www.diggersanddreamers.org.uk/index.php?fld=initial&val=B&one=dat&two=det&sel=brothood). [Diggers and Dreamers](/source/Diggers_and_Dreamers)

1. [*Utopian England: Community Experiments, 1900-1945*](https://books.google.com/books?id=YiTBDbHoS7MC&pg=PA181). Psychology Press. 2000. p. 181. ISBN 978-0-419-24670-1.

1. ["Brotherhood Church"](http://www.utopia-britannica.org.uk/pages/YORKS.htm). Utopia Britannica. British Utopian Experiments (1325-1945), Yorkshire

1. ["Obituary for Len W. Gibson"](http://www.wri-irg.org/news/2007/gibson.htm). War Resisters' International.

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