Walsingham Abbey

Name: Walsingham Abbey
Address: Common Place The Shirehall Museum, Walsingham NR22 6BP England, Dereham, United Kingdom
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Common Place The Shirehall Museum, Walsingham NR22 6BP England

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Walsingham Abbey Grounds surround the ruins of the historic Augustinian Priory of our Lady, England's most famous medieval pilgrimage shrine. The landscape garden, woods and river walks are also renowned for the white carpets of naturalised snowdrops which offer stunning displays in February. Admission includes the Shirehall Museum, originally a pilgrim hostel, which was converted into a Courtroom in Georgian times, and was in use as a court up to the 1970s. Today the Shirehall is Walsingham's museum of the history of pilgrimage and of local law and order. Also on display, Walsingham 950 time line tracing village history since 1061.

At a glance

Typical visit: about 1 hour 30 minutes