Walsingham
Walsingham is a village in North Norfolk, England, popular for its religious shrines in honour of the Virgin Mary. It likewise consists of the ruins of two middle ages monastic homes. The civil parish, including Little Walsingham and also Great Walsingham, along with the depopulated middle ages village of Egmere (grid referral 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 tale, a Saxon noblewoman, Richeldis de Faverches, had a vision of the Virgin Mary in which she was advised 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 included a wooden 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 turned into one of northern Europe's great areas of expedition and stayed so with most of the Middle Ages.
