The Otley Circuit was created out of the Keighley Circuit in 1790 and there was a Society in Shaw Mills at that time. The first chapel was opened in 1808, built at a cost of £250. There was only £13 owing by the time the chapel opened, but it wasn't repaid until 1860. In 1811, the Society, with 20 members, was incorporated in the new Pateley Bridge Circuit. In the early 1890's the Society was at a low ebb due to deaths and removals and the chapel was dilapidated with a leaking rook. There must have been a revival because the foundation stone of a new chapel was laid in 1904 and it opened in 1905, at a cost of £1,421.
The chapel is no longer on the Methodist Circuit and in 2004 was purchased for conversion to a private dwelling.
Historical notes compiled using information available from Nidderdale Museum.