Oakhill Methodist church
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Oakhill Methodist church
Image: © Neil Owen Taken: 20 Aug 2020
The Wesleyan Methodist church stands near the main road, dating from 1825. John Wesley himself used to preach to the villagers from 1746 and found a strong community that was already non-conformist many years previously. On other visits Wesley found the population in feisty moods, sometimes fuelled by a drunken mob who were prompted by unseen agitators. Oakhill was also a Presbyterian hotbed, led by the Billingsleys - a well known dissenting family who settled at nearby Ashwick about 1689.
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Image Location
Latitude
51.224441
Longitude
-2.523203