Ellaston (Ellastone) Primitive Methodist chapel
Ramsor circuit ; DE6 2GU
Ellaston (Ellastone) Primitive Methodist chapel
Ellaston Primitive Methodist chapel in the Ramsor circuit was opened in 1837. Ramsor was in fact the hamlet of Ramshorn at the western end of the Parish of Ellastone and was very significant in the early history of Primitive Methodism.
On the 1881 Ordnance Survey map, a Primitive Methodist chapel is shown on the left hand side of the road north out of Upper Ellastone, just north of the junction with Church Lane. It disappears from maps between 1922 and 1976.
Reference
Primitive Methodist magazine 1838 page 353
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Ellastone is the setting of George Eliot’s novel ‘Adam Bede’- and Ellastone Green is the location of Dinah Morris with her open air preaching, as depicted in the novel, reputedly taken from real life. It could have been an open air preaching place for the Prims.
The location of the chapel is a few hundred yards away from the village green, (now the playing field) and just up the road from the house known as Adam Bede’s house. The Parish church organise an Adam Bede walk.
Ellastone is on the Ramsor plan for 1851.
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