Derbyshire Places of Worship

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Little Moor Methodist Church, Littlemoor, Ashover
Little Moor Methodist Church,
Stubben Edge Lane (east side),
Littlemoor, Ashover, Derbyshire.

Cemeteries

We believe the Church did NOT have a graveyard.

Note: any church within an urban environment may have had its graveyard closed after the Burial Act of 1853. Any new church built after that is unlikely to have had a graveyard at all.

Church History

This Place of Worship was founded before 1879, but we understand it was closed before 1995.

This building is listed in Places recorded by the Registrar General under the provisions of the Places of Worship Registration Act 1855 (2010) with a location of "Little Moor". It is a single cell building of weathered gritstone, with a date plaque on the apex, which is not entirely readable from Google StreetView, but (with a little imagination) may say "Primitive Methodist".

Its first known appearance on Old Maps is OS 1879-80 1:2.500, where it is marked as "Methodist Chapel (Primitive)". The plot on the opposite (west) side of the road is marked as having a Trough and two Pumps, so obviously there was plenty of water to be had in the area!

It is still marked with a '+' on my OS Map of 1979 1:50,000 but surprisingly, it is not mentioned with Ashover in Kelly's Directories of 1895 or 1932, when comparable Nonconformist and Church Mission Rooms at Alton are. None of them are shown on my Derbyshire Street Atlas of 1995, however, and there seems to be little doubt that it is now closed, as today (2011) it appears to be part of the premises of a newly built bungalow.

Denomination

Now or formerly Primitive Methodist.

If more than one congregation has worshipped here, or its congregation has united with others, in most cases this will record its original dedication.

Maps

This Church was located at OS grid reference SK3627563009. You can see this on various mapping systems. Note all links open in a new window:

Resources

I have found many websites of use whilst compiling the information for this database. Here are some which deserve mention as being of special interest for Littlemoor, Ashover, and perhaps to Local History and Places of Worship as a whole.

The above links were selected and reviewed at the time I prepared the information, but please be aware their content may vary, or disappear entirely. These factors are outside my control.

Information last updated on 17 Dec 2011 at 17:54.

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This Report was created 10 Oct 2024 - 22:11:15 BST from information held in the Derbyshire section of the Places of Worship Database. This was last updated on 13 Oct 2021 at 14:33.

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