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 two middle ages monastic homes. The civil parish, including Little Walsingham and Great Walsingham, along with the depopulated middle ages town 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 construct a reproduction of your house 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 built, the Holy House in Walsingham was panelled with wood and also consisted of a wood statue of an enthroned Virgin Mary with the youngster Jesus seated on her lap. Among its relics was a phial of the Virgin's milk. Walsingham became one of northern Europe's terrific areas of expedition and continued to be so through the majority of the Middle Ages.
