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unusual facts about Primitive Methodism


Listed buildings in Broxton, Cheshire

It is the burial place of John Wedgwood who died in 1860 and his wife; Wedgwood was a preacher in the Primitive Methodist church.


Hugh Bourne

Hugh Bourne (1772–1852) along with William Clowes was the joint founder of Primitive Methodism, the largest offshoot of Wesleyan Methodism and, in the mid nineteenth century, an influential Protestant Christian movement in its own right.


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Hugh Bourne

One notable achievement of this revival was the religious conversion of Burslem-born William Clowes (1780-1851), the other joint founder of Primitive Methodism.