Orton on the Hill about 20 miles west of Leicester and close to the border of Warwickshire.
Richard Dowley was licensed to preach here in his house in 1672.[1] Just two nonconformists were recorded in 1676.[2] In 1706 the vicar reported ‘five Occasional dissenters who are Presbyterians, & One Quaker’. There was no longer any meeting house in the parish.[3]
In 1829, 15 Methodists met for worship in a private house.[4] No return was made to the 1851 religious census, and no chapel is noted in 19th- or early 20th-century trade directories.
Notes
[1] F. Bate, The Declaration of Indulgence 1672: A Study in the Rise of Organised Dissent (London, 1908)
[2] A. Whiteman, The Compton Census of 1676: A Critical Edition (London, 1986), p.
[3] J. Broad (ed.), Bishop Wake’s summary of visitation returns from the diocese of Lincoln, 1706-1715. Part 2, Outside Lincolnshire (Huntingdonshire, Hertfordshire, Bedfordshire, Leicestershire, Buckinghamshire) (Oxford, 2012), p. 884
[4] ROLLR, QS 95/2/1/179