Milltown Methodist Church (known alternatively as Milltown Chapel, Milltown Primitive Methodist Chapel and Ashover Hay Primitive Methodist Chapel) is a now-closed,

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Methodist chapel in the village of

Milltown, Derbyshire Milltown is a village in Derbyshire, England. It is located 1 mile south east of Ashover and is part of Ashover civil parish. To the north of the village is Milltown Quarry, now closed. It is a small quarry, which was open for limestone extraction ...

. The chapel was founded by

Hugh Bourne Hugh Bourne (3 April 1772 – 11 October 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 ...

who formed a society in the district. The building, which also has a graveyard (though this no longer present), was opened in 1824, and was expanded in 1870. The building is built from coursed gritstone with a roof of Welsh slate. The chapel became

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in 1995. Worship ceased at an unrecorded date after .

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