Walsingham
Walsingham is a town in North Norfolk, England, popular for its spiritual temples in honour of the Virgin Mary. It additionally has the ruins of two medieval monastic homes. The civil parish, consisting of Little Walsingham and Great Walsingham, together with the depopulated middle ages 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 develop a reproduction of your home 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 constructed, the Holy House in Walsingham was panelled with timber and consisted of a wood statuary of an enthroned Virgin Mary with the child Jesus seated on her lap. Amongst its antiques was a phial of the Virgin's milk. Walsingham became one of northern Europe's excellent places of pilgrimage and stayed so with a lot of the Middle Ages.