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Ministers (where known)

1817 –1821 Brother Ingram (first minister)
  Left to go to Heptonstall Slack
1821 – ? Mr Smedley
1831 - 1832 Mr Elam Stenson
1841 - 1843 R Ingham is the pastor. The church has 110 members, 23 being baptised in that year, 6 received from other churches, 2 restored, 2 dismissed, 2 excluded and 2 dead. 192 Sunday school scholars with 21 teachers.
1845 - 1847 J. Dunkley
1848 - 1850 The church has 101 members
1850 - 1857 No pastor. Church membership fluctuates between 40 and 70
1858 - ? Pastor W. Shakespeare.  Church membership recorded at 70 members
up to 1897 UNKNOWN
1897 – 1901 Rev Henry Collard, ATS
1901 – 1904 Interregnum
1904 – 1913 Rev William Collins Davies
  left to go to Crowle Doncaster
1914 Rev GSC Eveleigh (retired missionary, ministered briefly)
1914 – 1917 Interregnum
1917 – 1920 Rev HF Bran
  Left to go to Lenton Sands, Nottingham
1920 – 1944 Interregnum (not confirmed)
  Moderator for some of the later period Rev FG Hastings, Derby
1944 – 1949 Rev FJ Gay, from Halwill, Devon
1949 – 1951 Interregnum
1951 – 1955 Rev PG Kirby
1956 – 1959 Rev CL Martin
1959 – 1962 Interregnum
April 1962 – ? Rev AJ Roberts
1971 - 1977 Rev Peter Grange
1979 - ? Rev John Waghorn
Rev David Hughes - Supplementary Minister
1984 - 1990 Rev John Claydon
Interregnum Moderator Rev Charles Levy 
1992 - May 1995 Rev David Perry (retired)
Interregnum Moderator Rev Roy Plant
June 1998 - May 2000 Rev Robert Charles
Interregnum Moderator Rev Clive Jarvis to Mid 2001
May 2002 - present Rev Ken Reynard (Current Minister)