apart. The P.M. building was the more suitable, so the Wesleyan building was eventually sold. In 1962, for example, there were 10 societies in the Circuit. These were Wetton, Alstonefield, Hartington. Butterton, Warslow, Longnor, Rewlach, Sheen, Newtown, and Hollinsclough. Rewlach, for example, was a chapel in a remote location associated with one farmhouse and little else. Yet even in the 1990s, not long before closure, it still attracted enough people to fill the building for harvest festival. The only chapel still open as a place of worship is Hollinsclough, which celebrated its 200th anniversary at Easter 2001. Modern population trends, and economic pressures, led to the end of Wetton and Longnor as a separate Circuit. In 1969, it ceased and the various chapels were allocated to neighbouring Circuits of Leek, Ashbourne and Buxton. It is not only Methodist chapels that have closed. Many village schools have also closed during the same time. See also Penitent band Annual Conferences of the United Methodist Church Parish, Deanery and Diocese – the organisational units in the Church of England Ecclesiastical polity List of Methodist churches References External links The Connexion - The Methodist Church Districts, circuits and other Methodist organisations Methodism in the United Kingdom Circuit History of Methodism Church organization