Derbyshire

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. A handful of Derbyshire chapels of both denominations seem to have escaped the Registrar’s notice. 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. There are at least seven instances in Derbyshire where the same chapel is listed as a Wesleyan Methodist Association, or Wesleyan Reform chapel, then as a United Methodist Free Church. We have also discovered that the official location may not be the same as the name by which the chapel is commonly described.

Derbyshire was one of the places where the Wesleyan Reform movement began, so there were a large number of Wesleyan Reform chapels. The complication is that not all Wesleyan reformers joined the United Methodist Free Churches in 1857: a number of chapels remained outside in the Wesley Reform Union. As far as the Registrar General was concerned there was no difference. On this site, however, we respect the decision of some Methodists to remain separate, so their chapels are not listed.

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

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