Walsingham
Walsingham is a town in North Norfolk, England, well-known for its religious shrines in honour of the Virgin Mary. It also has the ruins of 2 medieval monastic homes. The civil parish, consisting of Little Walsingham and also Great Walsingham, along with the depopulated medieval town of Egmere (grid recommendation TF 897 374), has an area 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 develop a reproduction of your house of the Holy Household in Nazareth in honour of the Annunciation. Her family name does not show up in the Domesday Book. When it was constructed, the Holy House in Walsingham was panelled with wood and contained a wood statuary of an enthroned Virgin Mary with the youngster Jesus seated on her lap. Amongst its relics was a phial of the Virgin's milk. Walsingham turned into one of northern Europe's great locations of pilgrimage and continued to be so via most of the Middle Ages.
