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Little
Walsingham.
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An
attractive village noted for its medieval history and architecture,
including timber framed buildings indicating its wealth
in the 15th and 16th centuries.
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Walsingham
has been a place of pilgrimage since 1061. It is one of
the principle Marian shrines in the world and people still
travel to the village from all over the world. Around Easter
you may encounter pilgrims carrying crosses in the country
lanes around Walsingham.
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Before
1150 a wooden shrine was built. In the 15th century a stone
chapel was built around it. In the meantime, in 1153 the
Augustinian Priory was founded. In 1538, with the Dissolution
of the monasteries, Henry VIII had the shrine and priory
destroyed and a Georgian house stands on the site. The mid
14th Friary is also now a ruin.
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After
the shrine was destroyed Walsingham lost its wealth until
in the 1930s a new Anglican Shrine was built on the site
of the medieval shrine. There is also a Slipper Chapel,
a Roman Catholic visitor centre, a Georgian courthouse,
a16th century well with brick cover and pump in the village
square and an 18th century prison and museum.
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