Lancashire

This is a list of chapels that had been registered by 1867, derived from ‘A list of places of meeting for public religious worship, certified to the Registrar General’.   Remember that registration was not compulsory. There is evidence from Methodist sources of a further eight MNC and seventeen UMFC chapels at this time. As registration was valid until cancelled, however, there may be duplication: i.e.  both the old and new chapels in a place may be listed. This particularly affects the chapels of the Wesleyan Methodist Association and Wesleyan Reformers, which merged to become the United Methodist Free Churches. We have also discovered that the official location may not be the same as the name by which the chapel is commonly described.

Unless otherwise stated each of these places of worship is described as a chapel.

The numbers on the list relate to places, and match those on the map. The base map is provided under this licence

In 1867 the Bible Christians were present only in Ashton-under-Lyne, so their two chapels are not mapped. I would be grateful for any information about the Modern Methodists, who had three chapels near Rochdale. These also are not mapped.

The Methodist New Connexion chapels were concentrated in the south-east of the county, around Manchester and Ashton-inder-Lyne. The United Methodist Free Churches had a wider distribution, with a particular concentration around Rochdale.

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