| Description | Circuit plans, trust and records, quarterly meeting minutes, station reports, chapel schedules and other records for the following circuits: Belper Wesleyan (later Trinity) Circuit 1835-1943, Belper Field Head Primitive Methodist Circuit 1824-1937 (including baptism register 1840-1863), Belper United Methodist Free (Salem) Circuit 1871-1942, Belper Amalgamated Circuit 1943-1978; unidentified church records 1886-1968; Belper Wesleyan Methodist Christian Workers' Association minutes 1889-1895; miscellaneous collected articles, photographs and other records, including papers of the late Mr G A Fletcher (member of Trinity Methodist Church) and papers of Miss Marjorie Blount of Belper, local writer and broadcaster |
| Administrative History | This circuit is based on the Belper Amalgamated or Belper (A) Circuit formed in September 1943 by the union of the Belper Trinity (formerly Belper Wesleyan) Circuit and the Belper Central Circuit. Belper became the head of a Wesleyan Methodist Circuit in 1803. The Wesleyan Methodist Circuit was renamed the Belper Trinity Circuit in 1933 following the unification of the Methodist Church. Belper Central Circuit was formed in 1934 from the union of the Field Head Methodist Circuit and the Salem United Methodist Free Circuit. The deposits included records from all the circuits and their constituent churches but the records of the churches have now been renumbered D4224-D4256. They also included the papers of the late Mr G A Fletcher, a member of Trinity Church, Belper and the papers of the late Miss Marjorie Blount, a local writer and broadcaster. |
| Custodial History | Deposits of records from the Belper Methodist Circuit received in the Derbyshire Record Office in April 1968, May 1969, May 1971, June 1984, January 1992 , November 2002 and August 2016 |