Golcar, Hillhouse Methodist New Connexion chapel was built in 1842. In 1851 it provided no free and 319 other sittings
J Woolfe, Yorkshire returns of the 1851 census of religious worship, Vol 3 West Riding, South No. 1785 (TNAHO129/497/136)
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Although both J. Wolffe and The National Archives have transcribed the name of this chapel as Hillhouse, it is actually the return for Wellhouse MNC chapel.
There is no evidence that a Hillhouse Methodist New Connexion chapel existed. (and Hillhouse is on the other side of Huddersfield), whereas there is plenty of evidence concerning a chapel at Wellhouse, which is in Golcar. Wellhouse appears on the 1861 list of Methodist New Connexion chapels, on the 1867 list of registered places of worship, and in the 1940 Methodist accommodation returns. Furthermore, the address of James Dyson, the Steward who signed the return, is in Linthwaite, just across the river from Golcar.
West Yorkshire Archives Service hold the records of Wellhouse, which reveal a congregation meeting from 1817, who indeed built a chapel in 1842, and continued until 1995
https://wyasotr.huddersfield.click/wellhouse_methodist_new_connexion_church_golcar.html
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