Ruin of Walsingham Abbey

Little Walsingham (neighbour of Great Walsingham) is probably the most famous pilgrimage place in the country, formerly second only to Canterbury. 
It is often known as England’s Nazareth from the chapel built by Richeldis de Faverches, after a vision she had of the Holy House of the Annunciation in Nazareth.  Her son Geoffrey was on the First Crusade in the Holy Land in 1095, and he donated land for the building of the Augustinian Priory, the Priory of Our Lady of Walsingham. 
Kings Henry III and Edward I were among many notable pilgrims and benefactors. After Norwich it was the richest priory in Norfolk by the fifteenth century. 
Erasmus was here in 1511; and Henry VIII also came to Walsingham on pilgrimage in 1511, when he was visiting East Barsham Hall, near the Slipper Chapel at Houghton-in-the Dale.

The Priory is now generally referred to as the Abbey, though it was never granted the title.  Abbey House was built in the ruins of the Priory in 1720 and rebuilt in 1806.
The village contains many buildings dating from the seventeenth century or earlier. The Anglican Shrine of our Lady was built in the 1930s.