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Sutton place of worship categories already existing:


 * All Saints Church (Hackbridge)‎
 * All Saints church, Benhilton‎
 * All Saints church, Carshalton
 * Christ Church, Sutton, London‎
 * Church of St John the Baptist, Belmont‎
 * Church of the Good Shepherd, Carshalton‎
 * Holy Family Church, Sutton, London‎
 * Holy Trinity Church, Wallington‎
 * Lumley Chapel, Cheam‎
 * St Alban's Church, Cheam‎
 * St Andrew's United Reformed Church, Cheam
 * St Barnabas Church, Sutton, London‎
 * St Dunstan's Church, Cheam‎
 * St Mary's Beddington‎
 * St Michael and All Angels' Church, South Beddington‎
 * St Nicholas Church, Sutton, London‎
 * Sutton Baptist Church, London‎
 * Trinity Church, Sutton‎
 * Wallington Methodist Church

The western part of Hampshire was not early to embrace Methodism, being part of the so-called "Methodist Wilderness" in this part of southern England. John Wesley, the founder of Methodism, visited Andover in 1759 and 1760 and Romsey later in the 1760s, but experienced success at neither place: he "preached to a few dead stones" at Andover, and described hearers at Romsey as "quiet" and "unaffected" by his preaching. Nevertheless, the denomination entered a growth period from the mid-19th century in the "wilderness", and chapels were founded in various towns and villages. Primitive Methodism, which split from Wesleyan Methodism in the early 19th century, was also strong locally. The Methodist Church of Great Britain, formed by the reuniting of the two denominations and another (the United Methodist Church) in 1932, documented all the chapels it owned as of 1940 in a statistical return published in 1947. Within the boundaries of the present borough of Test Valley at that time, there were 31 chapels representing the denomination's three historic strands: 19 that were originally Primitive Methodist, 10 of Wesleyan origin and two United Methodist chapels. Primitive Methodist chapels could be found at Ampfield, Amport, Andover (East Street), Appleshaw, Barton Stacey, Canada Common, Charlton, Forton (near Longparish), Hurstbourne Tarrant, King's Somborne, Leckford, Littledown, Longstock, Lower Clatford, Newtown (near Awbridge), Upper Clatford, Vernham Dean, Wherwell and Wildhern. There were chapels of Wesleyan origin at Andover (Bridge Street), Clanville, Longparish, Nether Wallop, Nursling, Romsey, Thruxton, Timsbury, West Wellow and Wherwell. King's Somborne and Up Somborne (a hamlet in the same parish) each had a chapel with United Methodist origins. The chapels at Ampfield and Thruxton had already closed and been sold by the time the statistics were published. Some have been demolished, such as the former Primitive Methodists chapel in Andover and Barton Stacey, but most survive—although many have closed and are now in alternative use, often residential as at Longstock, Upper Clatford and both chapels at Wherwell.

Pocock is (A Sketch of the History of Wesleyan-Methodism in some of the Southern Counties of England)