Walsingham and Around: The Postcard Collection

<p>Walsingham is a large village in north Norfolk famous for its shrines of Mary. The original shrine was built there in 1061 and attracted pilgrims from all over Europe. In the Middle Ages, it was said to be the fourth most important pilgrimage place after the Holy Land, Rome and Compostela in Spain. That all stopped with the Reformation in the 1530s, but memories remained. The Catholics refounded a shrine at nearby Houghton in the 1890s and then the Anglicans did the same in Walsingham i