BISHOP'S STORTFORD METHODIST CIRCUIT

<span class="wrapper"><p>For further records concerning Bishops Startford circuit and church see DDE200 Documents deposited at Essex R.O.</p> <p>Hertfordshire Methodist Chapels</p> <p>Alphabetical list of chapels for which records have been received in the Record Office</p> <p>ALDENHAM NM7P</p> <p>ARKESDEN (Essex) NM9B</p> <p>ARLESEY Christchurch NM4D</p> <p>St John NM4N</p> <p>ASHWELL NM11C</p> <p>BALDOCK NM4U</p> <p>BARNET EAST Brookside NM1C</p> <p>BARNET HIGH NM1A</p> <p>BARNET NEW NM1B</p> <p>BENINGTON NM4E</p> <p>BERDEN (Essex) NM9C</p> <p>BERKHAMSTED Cowper Road NM3C</p> <p>High Street NM3E</p> <p>BIGGLESWADE (Bedfordshire) NM11A</p> <p>BISHOP'S STORTFORD NM9A</p> <p>BOREHAMWOOD NM1F</p> <p>BOXMOOR NM3H</p> <p>BURNT MILL (Essex) NM9D</p> <p>BUSHEY HEATH NM7N</p> <p>BUSHEY AND OXHEY NM7Q</p> <p>CHESHUNT NM10D</p> <p>CHORLEY WOOD NM7L</p> <p>CROXLEY GREEN NM7M</p> <p>CUPID GREEN (Hemel Hempstead) NM7H</p> <p>DASSELLS (Braughing) NM9G</p> <p>FLAMSTEAD NM2G</p> <p>Trowley Bottom NM2K</p> <p>GADDESDEN ROW NM2J</p> <p>GRAVELEY NM4F</p> <p>HARPENDEN High Street NM2B</p> <p>Batford NM2D</p> <p>Southdown Road NM2C</p> <p>Kinsbourne Green NM2A</p> <p>HATFIELD Birchwood NM5E</p> <p>Broadway NM5D</p> <p>Oxlease NM5F</p> <p>HEMEL HEMPSTEAD Marlowes NM3B</p> <p>Lower Marlow NM3D</p> <p>Wesley NM3F</p> <p>Bourne NM3H</p> <p>Cupid Green NM7H</p> <p>HENLOW (Bedfordshire) NM4V</p> <p>HERTFORD NM10A</p> <p>HINXWORTH NM11B</p> <p>HITCHIN Brand Street NM4A</p> <p>Nightingale Road NM4B</p> <p>Christchurch NM4C</p> <p>Walsworth NM4L</p> <p>ICKLEFORD NM4G</p> <p>KIMPTON NM2F</p> <p>KINSBOURNE GREEN (Harpenden) NM2A</p> <p>KNEBWORTH NM8A</p> <p>LANGLEY, ABBOTS NM7C</p> <p>LANGLEY, KINGS NM7G</p> <p>LETCHWORTH Broadway NM4P</p> <p>Central NM4Q</p> <p>North Avenue NM4R</p> <p>LEY HILL (Buckinghamshire) NM3K</p> <p>MARKYATE NM2H</p> <p>NASH MILLS NM3G</p> <p>OFFLEY NM4H</p> <p>PEGSDON NM4I</p> <p>PELHAM, FURNEUX NM9H</p> <p>PIRTON NM4J</p> <p>POTTERS BAR NM1D</p> <p>RADLETT NM1E</p> <p>REDBOURN NM5G</p> <p>RICKMANSWORTH High Street NM7E</p> <p>Mill End NM7F</p> <p>SAFFRON WALDEN (Essex) NM9F</p> <p>ST ALBANS Boundary Road NM5B</p> <p>Marlborough Road NM5A</p> <p>Hatfield Road NM5J</p> <p>SEWARDSTONE (Essex) NM10E</p> <p>SHEERING (Essex) NM9E</p> <p>SHENLEY NM5H</p> <p>SLEAPSHYDE NM5C</p> <p>STEVENAGE Old Town NM6A</p> <p>Chells NM6B</p> <p>Broadwater NM6C</p> <p>STOTFOLD (Bedfordshire) Brook Street NM4S</p> <p>High Street NM4T</p> <p>STUDHAM (Bedfordshire) NM2L</p> <p>TRING Langdon Street NM3J</p> <p>TROWLEY BOTTOM (Flamstead) NM2K</p> <p>TWO WATERS NM3A</p> <p>WALKERN NM4K</p> <p>WALSWORTH (Hitchin) NM4L</p> <p>WALTHAM ABBEY (Essex) NM10F</p> <p>WARE NM10B</p> <p>WARESIDE NM10C</p> <p>WATFORD North NM7B</p> <p>Queen's Road NM7A &amp; NM7J</p> <p>St Albans Road NM7I</p> <p>Vicarage Road NM7D</p> <p>Whippendell Road NM7K</p> <p>WELWYN Oaklands NM8B</p> <p>WESTON NM4M</p> <p>WHEATHAMPSTEAD The Mill NM5I</p> <p>The Folly NM2E</p> <p>WHETSTONE (Middlesex) NM1G</p></span>

Introduction

John Wesley visited Bishop's Stortford in March 1775 but did not preach there. Until 1885 Bishop's Stortford formed part of the Bishop's Stortford and Hertford circuit (see NM10). At this date a separate Bishop's Stortford circuit was formed which in 1887 amalgamated with the Saffron Walden Wesleyan circuit to form the North West Essex Mission. The Mission included the chapels at Bishop's Stortford, Saffron Walden, Harlow, Hoddesdon, Burnt Hill, Braughing, Little Chesterford, Arkesden, Berden and Sheering. From 1902-12 the Mission was again amalgamated with the Hertford churches to form the much larger London and Hertford Mission circuit. For information relating to this circuit see NM10/11 - 19. In 1912 the North West Essex Mission was again constituted a separate circuit, the chapel at Hoddesdon remaining part of the newly formed Waltham Abbey and Hertford circuit (see NM10). The chapel at Sheering was closed in 1918(see NM9 E) and Sawbridgeworth formed part of the Mission from 1926 until its closure in 1938. In 1939 the Mission was amalgamated with the former Primitive Methodist churches of the Saffron Walden circuit (Saffron Walden, Chrishall, Clavering, Hempstead, Ickleton, Langley (Essex), Furneux Pelham, Manuden and Dassells) to form the Bishop's Stortford circuit. Berden was closed in 1942, Burnt Hill was transferred to the Harlow Mission circuit in 1953 and Dassells and Furneux Pelham closed at the same period.

The circuit now includes Bishop's Stortford, Stanstead, Braughing, Saffron Walden, Chrishall, Clavering, Arkesden, Langley and Ickleton and forms part of the London North East District of the Methodist church.