Walsingham
Walsingham is a village in North Norfolk, England, famous for its religious temples in honour of the Virgin Mary. It likewise includes the ruins of two medieval monastic houses. The civil parish, consisting of Little Walsingham and Great Walsingham, along with the depopulated medieval town of Egmere (grid recommendation TF 897 374), has a location of 18.98 kilometres ². At the 2011 census, it had a population of 819. Walsingham is a significant centre of Pilgrimage. In 1061, according to the Walsingham legend, a Saxon noblewoman, Richeldis de Faverches, dreamt of the Virgin Mary in which she was advised to build a reproduction of your house of the Holy Family Members in Nazareth in honour of the Annunciation. Her family name does not show up in the Domesday Book. When it was built, the Holy House in Walsingham was panelled with wood as well as had a wood statue of an enthroned Virgin Mary with the child Jesus seated on her lap. Among its relics was a phial of the Virgin's milk. Walsingham became one of northern Europe's excellent areas of pilgrimage and also stayed so with most of the Middle Ages.
