Rodwell End, Higher Eastwood, Todmorden

Todmorden’s first Baptist Meeting House was built on this site about 1703 but it closed eighty years later although there was short revival at the end of the century but then in 1804 the congregation moved down the hill to their new Rehoboth Chapel at Millwood. The building seen here was built by the Methodists in 1865 but as the population moved down from the hillside settlements this congregation moved to Springside Wesleyan Chapel in the valley below it in 1875. The building was derelict for many years but in this photo it is being renovated for conversion into a private house mid-20th century.