The paper discusses modules over free nilpotent groups and demonstrates that faithful modules are more restricted than might appear at first glance. Some discussion is also made of applying the techniques more generally.2000 Mathematics subject classification: primary 20F18, 20F18.The aim of this note is to discuss the nature of modules over finitely generated nilpotent groups. More particularly, we shall state some results for finitely generated faithful modules over free nilpotent groups and then briefly conjecture how these ideas might apply more generally. The techniques involve the application of results of Brookes [3] and of Brookes and the author [4,5,6].In contrast to the situation for modules over free abelian groups, it is not clear how to write down a wide range of faithful modules over an infinite nilpotent group. In order to avoid the complicated detail that comes with greater generality, we will restrict our consideration to faithful modules over free nilpotent groups of finite rank. Let H denote a free nilpotent group of finite rank with centre £ (H) and let k be a field. How can we construct a faithful module for kHlWe clearly have free modules as well as, possibly, other torsion-free modules. We also have some straightforward quotients of these. If P is a prime ideal of k£(H) satisfying (P + 1) D £(//) = 1 then, by a theorem of Zalesskii (see [9, Corollary 11.4.6]), kH/P.kH is a faithful module for H. Alternatively, we can regard such modules as being induced from modules over the centre of H (where it