The Wesleyan Methodist Circuit centred on the twin villages of Great & Little Walsingham was created in 1812 from the large King's Lynn Circuit. The new circuit covered the north-western corner of Norfolk and villages with strong representation in the records include Wells-next-the-Sea, The Burnhams, Docking and the coastal zone from Dersingham around to Holkham, inland the circuit stetched to include as far south as the parishes along the line of the Fakenham to King's Lynn road with the Rudhams well represented.

These records were split into 4 separate registers; the first, surrendered to The National Archives in 1837, is a conventional Anglican 800 entry parish baptismal register and is filmed on Microfilm MF1152 in the Norfolk Record Office collection. The latter three registers are standard Methodist books of 400 entries, two to a page, and are filmed on MF1730. It should be noted that for a substantial period there were two concurrent books in operation; this date sorted transcript has jumbled the entries so anyone who wishes to locate an original should take care to look in each book.