Walsingham
Walsingham is a village in North Norfolk, England, popular for its spiritual shrines in honour of the Virgin Mary. It also contains the ruins of 2 medieval monastic houses. The civil parish, including Little Walsingham and also Great Walsingham, together with the depopulated medieval town of Egmere (grid referral TF 897 374), has a location of 18.98 km 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 instructed to construct a reproduction of your house of the Holy Household in Nazareth in honour of the Annunciation. Her family name does not appear in the Domesday Book. When it was constructed, the Holy House in Walsingham was panelled with wood and consisted of a wood sculpture of an enthroned Virgin Mary with the youngster Jesus seated on her lap. Amongst its antiques was a phial of the Virgin's milk. Walsingham turned into one of northern Europe's wonderful places of pilgrimage and also continued to be so with most of the Middle Ages.