Leominster is a town in the north Herefordshire borderlands of England and Wales, known as the Marches.

Joseph Cownley (1723-1792), a native of Leominster, was converted in Bath by Methodist preaching. Returning to his home town in 1743 he joined the Moravian Society and later became one of John Wesley's preachers. John and Charles Wesley and John Cennick preached in Leominster between 1746 and 1750.

The first Wesleyan Methodist chapel in Leominster opened around 1836 and was replaced by a larger building in 1861.

The Primitive Methodists began open-air preaching in Leominster in 1821, formed a Society in 1825, and built a chapel in Green Lane in 1839.

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