John Wesley - the perpetual preacher - 5

Low Burnham (just a mile south of Epworth) was the first place where John preached outside of Epworth. He also preached at other towns on the Isle of Axholme: at Haxey Upperthorpe (or Overthorpe as it was then known) at Belton and at Wroot for the first time in 1742 and at Crowle in 1748. But his ministry, of course, extended well beyond these boundaries.

In this broader parish, he is know to have preached in Alkborough and Brigg in the North; Grimsby, Ludborough and Cleethorpes in the North East; Louth, Tealby and Horncastle in central Lincolnshire; Boston in the East and Grantham in the West, as well as Lincoln.

He frequently visited Gainsborough (where his mother moved after his father’s death) at the invitation of Sir Neville Hickman, who had bought the Old Hall towards the end of the reign of Elizabeth I. On his last visit in 1786, he was sad that Hickman was no more, and had left no son. Thereafter he preached at the new Methodist Meeting House.

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