WESLEYAN METHODIST CHURCH BURY CIRCUIT

CBW/1 Quarterly Meeting Minute Books 1835-1933

2 Committee Minutes 1839-1900

3 Quarterly Meeting Attendance Registers 1906-1940

4 Local Preachers Meeting Minute Books 1818-1890

5 Service Plans 1846-1933

6 Schedules of Monies and Members 1836-1938

7 Roll Books 1815-1900

8 Education Schedule Books 1864-1949

9 Chapel Trust Returns 1855-1941

10 Chapel Trust Stewards' Annual Accounts and Statistics 1847-1857

11 Chapel Accommodation Returns 1873-1931

12 Circuit Stewards' Account Books 1833-1949

13 Miscellaneous Stewards' records 1844-1949

14 Methodist Missionary Society records 1818-1914

15 Sunday School Union/Council/Youth Committee records 1870-1949

16 Other Circuit Society records 1827-1926

17 Miscellaneous records 1841-1916

• <corpname>Wesleyan Methodist Church: Bury Circuit, 1804-1933, Lancashire</corpname>
• <corpname>Bury (Union St) Circuit, 1883-1949, Lancashire</corpname>

These records have been deposited by various circuit officers at various dates up to 1996.

The circuit was formed in 1804 from parts of Bolton and Blackburn circuits and originally included societies at:

Bury, Radcliffe, Radcliffe Bridge, Ashworth, Unsworth, Haslingden, Edenfield, Flaxmoss, Ramsbottom,(Haslingden) Grane, Warren Lane, Whalley, Accrington

In 1814, a new Haslingden circuit was formed, so that by 1833 the circuit was reduced to the following societies:

Bury Radcliffe Close Radcliffe Bridge Unsworth - north & south from 1860, Moulding Tottington Brooksbottom & Summerseat Stone Pale (Whitefield) - to 1840

[records of Haslingden, Manchester Road circuit are held by Lancashire Record Office, Preston]

The following additional societies were subsequently formed within the circuit:

Lower Croft/Walshaw Lane 1839

Woolfold 1850

Pits o'th'Moor, Bury 1869

Elton 1885

Russell Street, Bury 1885 (mission 1878 on)

St. Paul's, Radcliffe 1885

Fairy Street (Bolton Road from 1913), Bury 1885 (mission 1876 on)

In 1889, the circuit was divided, and a separate Radcliffe Circuit formed from the Bridge, Close and St.Paul's Societies (for records of this circuit, see CMW).

After Methodist union in 1933, the circuit continued as Bury (Union St.) circuit until 1949, when all Methodist churches in the area were reorganised into a single new Bury circuit (for records of this circuit see CBH).