History of the Circuit.

 

The Circuit was renamed Meon Valley Methodist Circuit in 2000 prior to that it was the Droxford Methodist Circuit.

 

The Droxford Methodist Circuit was formerly the Droxford Primitive methodist Circuit formed in 1892. It succeeded the Hambledon branch, which had since 1885 operated for all practical purposes as a circuit within the Brinkworth District.

 

Chapels within this circuit (all Primitive Methodist) were established:

Worlds End (1862, sold c.1900),

Swanmore (1862),

Hambledon (1864),

Shirrell Heath (1864),

Meonstoke (1865, closed 1962),

Waltham Chase (1870),

Warnford (1872),

Droxford (1886),

Bishops Waltham (1910),

West Meon (1922),

Curdridge (1925, closed 2004).

Soberton (1868, Closed 2009) was transferred from the Winchester West circuit in 1936 and was formerly a United Methodist Church.

 

Although the Bishops Waltham Church was only built in 1910, there had previously been a society there, occupying rented rooms.

 

 

 

 

 

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