Walsingham is a village in North Norfolk, England, well-known for its spiritual shrines in honour of the Virgin Mary. It likewise contains the damages of 2 middle ages monastic residences. The civil parish, including Little Walsingham as well as Great Walsingham, along with the depopulated middle ages town of Egmere (grid reference 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 legend, a Saxon noblewoman, Richeldis de Faverches, had a vision of the Virgin Mary in which she was instructed to build a reproduction of the 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 timber and also contained a wooden sculpture of an enthroned Virgin Mary with the youngster Jesus seated on her lap. Amongst its antiques was a phial of the Virgin's milk. Walsingham became one of north Europe's terrific places of pilgrimage and stayed so via a lot of the Middle Ages.