Walsingham
Walsingham is a town in North Norfolk, England, famous for its religious shrines in honour of the Virgin Mary. It likewise consists of the damages of two medieval monastic houses. The civil parish, including Little Walsingham and Great Walsingham, along with the depopulated medieval village of Egmere (grid reference TF 897 374), has an area 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 legend, a Saxon noblewoman, Richeldis de Faverches, dreamt of the Virgin Mary in which she was instructed to develop a reproduction of the house of the Holy Family 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 also had a wood statuary of an enthroned Virgin Mary with the child Jesus seated on her lap. Among its antiques was a phial of the Virgin's milk. Walsingham turned into one of north Europe's wonderful places of trip and also continued to be so through a lot of the Middle Ages.