The leadership of the Meon Valley Methodist Circuit
Superintendent Minister | Revd Arthur Cowburn
Minister | Revd Joseph Tembo
Pioneer-Connexion Missioner & Football Teams Chaplain
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Circuit Stewards | Stephen Freemantle | Mark Chester
Circuit Treasurer | Dennis Gamblin
Circuit Administrator | Margaret Hunt
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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 to 1900)
- Swanmore (1862)
- Hambledon (1864)
- Shirrell Heath (1864)
- Meonstoke (1865 to 1962)
- Waltham Chase (1870)
- Warnford (1872)
- Droxford (1886)
- Bishops Waltham (1910) Although the Bishops Waltham Church was only built in 1910, there had previously been a society there, occupying rented rooms
- West Meon (1922 to 1990)
- Curdridge (1925 to 2004)
- Soberton (1868 to 2009) was transferred from the Winchester West circuit in 1936 and was formerly a United Methodist Church
