The 1884 Primitive Methodist magazine contains a note of the opening of a new Primitive Methodist chapel with quite a story behind it. For the previous 40 years, the society had met in a cottage and had been unable to secure a plot to build on. When they finally acquired a small plot, the squire refused to sell them the stone needed to build a chapel – so they put up an iron one.
The chapel cost £170 of which they had raised £85 “a capital sum for six or eight poor farm labourers”. “It is time our village populations were delivered form the oppression of parson ad squire. … Farm labourers need the franchise”
The 1902 and 1921 Ordnance Survey maps show a Primitive Methodist chapel on the road going north out of the village towards Winson Mill Farm. The current Ordnance survey shows no building on the site but the dame field boundary.
Reference
Primitive Methodist magazine 1884 page 316
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