Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Steeple Ashton

Steeple Ashton became a centre of Mormonism in the mid 19th century and in 1851 a congregation of about 50 was meeting in one room of a house. Missionaries were working in the area from 1844 and the first Steeple Ashton person to be converted was Catherine Naish, who was probably baptised in a pond on Bullen Hill Farm. Many more converts followed including members of the Dunsdon and Berrett families. By 1846 there were two licensed meeting places (in Bullen Hill and Dark Lane while another house in Dark Lane was licensed in 1849. In 1849 a group of 17 Mormons from Steeple Ashton emigrated to Ameriac and travelled to Utah by wagon train.

Between 1844 and 1874 there were 214 recorded member at Steeple Ashton, including 93 from surrounding towns and villages. Of these 91 eventually emigrated to America. Part of Nitt's Lane was nicknamed 'God's Corner' because of the meetings held there in the house now called Old Chessils.