Moreton Primitive Methodist chapel

According to Morris and Co’s Directory of Cheshire 1864 page 496:

‘MORETON-cum-LINGHAM is a township in Bidston parish, containing, by the census of 1861, 361 inhabitants, and 1193 acres; in the hundred of Wirral, South Cheshire, 1½ miles west from Bidston, and 4½ miles from Birkenhead, on the shores of the Irish Channel, and the greater part of the township is below the level of the sea at high water.’

1830:  H Henshaw of the Liverpool Circuit kept a journal of his missioning in north Wirral between August and November 1830.  References to Moreton are: On 1 August, ‘At two, spoke at Moreton.’  On 5 August, ‘Visited Moreton. Prayed with a number of families, but could not prevail with some to bend their knees. Spoke in the evening to a good congregation. A solemn time.’  On 22 August, ‘Held a Camp meeting at Moreton. The morning was wet and unfavourable. Our exercises were short, lively, and powerful: and the Unction from the Holy One rested upon us.’

Moreton did not appear on the Preaching Plans for the Liverpool Circuit (Birkenhead Branch) Plan for 1859 Q2 or the Birkenhead Circuit Plans for 1869 Q3 or 1889 Q2.

1867:  Moreton is listed in 1867 Register of [non-C of E] Buildings for Public Worship: Cheshire.  This is the only evidence I have found for a PM chapel in Moreton.

No PM chapel is shown on the 25” map for 1872-5.

Cheshire Archives holds various records about the 20^th century Methodist Church from 1931-54.  A chapel was opened in Moreton in 1948 at Childwall Avenue.  It was rebuilt as the Methodist Memorial Church at the corner of Pasture Road and Poulton Road in 1954 (CH46 7TQ), and continues in use today.