Northumberland

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. Methodist sources suggest that a further four MNC and six UMFC places of worship were open 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. The same chapel may also have been registered twice, following 1857 when the United Methodist Free Churches came into existence. 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 MNC chapels were all in urban areas, whereas the Wesleyan Reformers, later UMFC, were present in urban Tyneside, the coalfield, and in the rural Tyne valley around Hexham.

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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