Houses Hill Wesleyan Methodist Church, Kirkheaton

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Now called Kirkheaton United Church.

There were Methodists in the Kirkheaton parish in 1743 though it is uncertain if they were meeting in the village itself or elsewhere in the parish.

In 1776 Kirkheaton was a preaching centre in the Birstall Circuit.

In 1814 a chaple was built at the corner of Healey Green Lane and Houses Lane (later called Long Tongue Scrog Lane).

A class also met in a cottage at Stafford Hill in Kirkheaton village c1819; services were also held there on occasion.

In 1908 the chapel was rebuilt, but was no longer used by 1976. The congregation joined Kirkheaton United Reformed Church to form a United Church and used the United Reformed Church premises in New Road.

The church is still in existence in 2009 as a United Methodist and United Reformed Church called Kirkheaton United Church.