Around 1086 it got single 150 residents. Hempton, in a other side of the river, was the big community & got an abbey which played hikers to pilgrims on their way to Walsingham. Fakenham became a dominant centre once a abbey was abolished by Henry VIII.

Its major industry in the Nineteenth & Twentieth centuries was printing, but a printworks has nowadays closed. a prominent total of printing impedes use at times been placed into the surface of the market place as a memorial to this wasted industry.

Historically, Fakenham got deuce railroad station. Fakenham West station was on the Midland and Great Northern Joint Railway, and closed within 1959. the places is at present a builders depot, although Xx feet of the platform has been preserved. Fakenham East station was on the Great Eastern Railway and closed in a 1960s, although freight carried in until the Eighties. This station places is at present sheltered housing. Although okay, forswearing a railway, the Mid-Norfolk Railway plan to return trains to a town, & intend to build the freshly station touching the flatulency Works. A line would hyperlink Fakenham to Dereham, Wymondham and Norwich. A second scheme, a Norfolk Orbital Railway plans to link a town to the coast at Sheringham.

Attractions in the town include the racecourse, a local history museum in the former gas works and a vibrant Flea market held every Thursday.

Recently a town was voted a mst boring place within Britain, & spent much of instance, money & effort trying to prove that this was non a example.

Renowned population from either Fakenham include Henry Buckenham, the Primitive Methodist missionary in South Africa, Thomas Miller, world health organization install the prinint click, Edmund Peckover, a Cromwellian Puritan world health organization established a 1st bank in the town, John Garrood, world health organization improved the penny Farthing bike & Sir Robert Seppings, a shipbuilder who was knighted on the Royal Yacht in 1819.