The return from the Primitive Methodist preaching place in Rew to the 1851 Census of Places of Public Religious worship was completed by William Chaffey and George Riall, a prayer leader. The society had been meeting in the same accommodation for 4 years. It had 70 free seats and was usually full for services, although on Census Sunday 20 attended the morning service, 50 the afternoon and 60 the evening because it was wet weather .
It did not have a Sunday School.
The 1900 Ordnance Survey map shows a Primitive Methodist chapel some way from the hamlet of Rew and the village of Buckland Newton. Street View in 2016 shows it as Chapel Stores.
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Not another Buckland in Somerset but the information below is for Buckland Newton, Dorset :
The Builder, vol. 34, issue 1751, page 842, Aug., 26th 1876.
Buckland Newton.- The memorial stones of a new Primitive Methodist Chapel at Buckland Newton were ……..31st. [July] ult. The chapel which is to accommodate nearly 200 persons will cost, including site, [£]400 and the contractor is Mr. W. T. Kingsbury of Buckland Newton.
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