Marking the start of a movement

This stone marks the spot where the first Primitive Methodist Camp Meeting began on Mow Cop. The Mow Cop "castle" is in the background. The inscription reads

TO THE

GLORY OF GOD

a

Camp Meeting near

this spot on May 31st

1807

began the

Religious Revival

led by

HUGH BOURNE

and

WILLIAM CLOWES

known as

Primitive Methodism