Walsingham
Walsingham is a town in North Norfolk, England, famous for its spiritual temples in honour of the Virgin Mary. It likewise has the damages of 2 middle ages reclusive houses. The civil parish, consisting of Little Walsingham and Great Walsingham, along with the depopulated middle ages village 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 major 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 develop a reproduction of the 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 developed, the Holy House in Walsingham was panelled with timber and consisted of a wood statue 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 became one of north Europe's great areas of expedition as well as continued to be so with the majority of the Middle Ages.
