The Primitive Methodist Circuit for Fakenham & District was created in 1822 rather strangely from the Nottingham Circuit, which must have been rather extensive. The Circuit for Fakenham covered not only the market town and surrounding nearby parishes it also extended to the northern coast with places such as Wells next the Sea being particularly represented. Registers start from 1822 with a register deposited with The National Archives, their reference RG4/1362, a simple unruled book which has been hand-ruled into individual entries. There is a short gap, filled with a few back-dated entries before 3 registers deposited with Norfolk Record Office, references FC18/49. FC18/50 & FC18/51. Each is a standard 800-entry book pre-printed as a normal parish register of the Rose era. A word is required regarding numbering, the first register is un-numbered, the second has a number of pages manually completed beyond the end of the book, these are numbered with a page number prefix. The third register is a pre-stamped typical register whilst the fourth has no numbering at all, the sequence number has been added to aid in re-locating an individual entry. The register follows the typical faults of such registers, many records out of date sequence, erratic spelling verging on chaotic (all entries have been left as written) and frequent clerical errors such as birth date after baptismal date and also incomplete date details. Several entries have been omitted as there was insufficient completed data to merit such inclusion. As ever the handwriting left a lot to be desired being challenging at times, there is likely to be misreading of some entries as a result. Legacy films of the registers are on MF1148 for the first register and MF1778 for the subsequent three, digitised imagery of the TNA register is available for those with appropriate subscription on many of the commercial sites.