• Reference
    MB1/SNP
  • Title
    St Neots Primitive Methodist Circuit
  • Admin/biog history
    In existence by 1845. In the early years known as Buckden & Eynesbury Mission, Buckden Mission, and Buckden & St Neots Mission. Name changed to Eynesbury Mission in 1862 on loss of chapel at Buckden, then to Eynesbury, St Neots in 1868, and to St Neots Station in 1871. In 1873 it was considered that the station was not in a position to become a circuit with one preacher. Amalgamated with St Neots Wesleyans in 1933. Chapels: Brampton; Buckden (chapel lost 1860); Chawston?; Eltisley; Eynesbury; Gamlingay; Graveley (closed early 1900s?); Great Staughton (closed 1892); St Neots, Eaton Ford; Wyboston Places on Buckden Mission Preaching Plan, 1852: Buckden, Graveley, Eltisley, Great Staughton, Gamlingay; Caxton; Long Stow; Eynesbury; Wyboston; Caldecot; Southoe; Elsworth; Hail Weston; Offord Places on Buckden and St Neots Mission Preaching Plan, 1860: Buckden; Graveley; Eltisley; Staughton; Gamlingay; Long Stow; Eynesbury; Chawson; Offord Cluny; Girtford; S.Kimbolton; Eaton; Brampton; Hail Weston; Cambridge St, St Neots; Offord Darcy; Great Paxton Other preaching places (no chapel): Abbotsbury (from 1870); Duloe (1860s); Everton (1867); Little Staughton / Staughton Moor (1870-1872); Yelling (1862-1870)
  • Level of description
    series