Hightown Trinity Methodist Church, Liversedge

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Primitive Methodist services were held in the open air at Hightown c1820.

Hightown was a preaching centre in Leeds Primitive Methodist Circuit in 1821 using John Armitage's cottage at the top of Knowler Hill. Later John Dixon's house at Tanhouses was used.

In 1871 a chapel was built on the north side of Halifax Road just above Primrose Lane. This chapel closed in 1969 and the congregation joined Littletown St Andrew's Methodist Church.

Records relating to this church can be found at the West Yorkshire Archive Service: Kirklees under the reference number KC273/38.