Walsingham
Walsingham is a town in North Norfolk, England, famous for its spiritual temples in honour of the Virgin Mary. It additionally contains the ruins of 2 middle ages monastic homes. The civil parish, consisting of Little Walsingham as well as Great Walsingham, along with the depopulated medieval village of Egmere (grid reference 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 tale, a Saxon noblewoman, Richeldis de Faverches, dreamt of the Virgin Mary in which she was advised to construct a reproduction of the 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 developed, the Holy House in Walsingham was panelled with timber and included a wooden statue of an enthroned Virgin Mary with the kid Jesus seated on her lap. Among its relics was a phial of the Virgin's milk. Walsingham became one of northern Europe's great locations of expedition and remained so via a lot of the Middle Ages.
