Walsingham
Walsingham is a civil parish in the North Norfolk district, in Norfolk, England, notable for its religious shrines in honour of Mary, mother of Jesus.
Walsingham is a civil parish in the North Norfolk district, in Norfolk, England, notable for its religious shrines in honour of Mary, mother of Jesus. The parish also contains the ruins of two medieval monastic houses. Walsingham lies 27 miles northwest of Norwich and approximately 26 miles north-east of King's Lynn.
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Worth seeing in and around Walsingham
7 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Slipper Chapel
The Catholic National Shrine and Basilica of Our Lady, at Walsingham, is actually located one mile outside Walsingham, at Houghton Saint Giles, Norfolk, England. It incorporates both the historic Slipper Chapel built around 1340, and the more contemporary Chapel of Our Lady of Reconciliation completed in 1982, and its surrounding grounds.
2 km · Grade I listed minor basilica in Barsham, Norfolk, England, UK · Wikipedia - 02Anglican Shrine of Our Lady of Walsingham
The Anglican Shrine of Our Lady of Walsingham is a Church of England shrine church, built in 1938 in Walsingham, Norfolk, England. It was established as part of the revival of pilgrimage devotion led by Father Alfred Hope Patten in the 1920s.
200 m · Church of England shrine church built in 1938 in Walsingham, Norfolk, England · Wikipedia - 03Walsingham Priory
Walsingham Priory, originally established in the 12th century, was a monastery of Augustinian Canons regular in Walsingham, Norfolk, England. Also known as the Augustinian Priory of The Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, it became a significant pilgrimage site, associated with the Marian shrine of Our Lady of Walsingham, before being seized by the Crown and largely destroyed during the Dissolution of the Monasteries under King Henry VIII in the 16th century.
100 m · Grade I listed monastery in Walsingham, North Norfolk, England,UK · Wikipedia - 04East Barsham Manor
East Barsham Manor is an important work of Tudor architecture, a leading and early example of a prodigy house, originally built in the 1520s. It is located in the village of East Barsham, about 2.5 miles north of the town of Fakenham and 2.1 miles south west of the village of Walsingham in the English county of Norfolk.
3.4 km · Grade I listed manor house in North Norfolk, England, UK · Wikipedia - 05Hindringham Meadows
Hindringham Meadows is a 6.7-hectare Local Nature Reserve near Hindringham, north of Fakenham in Norfolk. It is owned and managed by North Norfolk District Council.
3.2 km · park in United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 06Wells and Walsingham Light Railway
The Wells and Walsingham Light Railway is a 10+1⁄4 in gauge heritage railway in Norfolk, England running between the coastal town of Wells-next-the-Sea and the inland village of Walsingham. The railway occupies a four-mile section of the trackbed of the former Wymondham to Wells branch which was closed to passengers in stages from 1964 to 1969 as part of the Beeching cuts.
3.8 km · Heritage railway in North Norfolk, England · Wikipedia - 07Church of St Mary and All Saints
St Mary and All Saints Church is the parish church of Little Walsingham in the English county of Norfolk. It is dedicated to the Virgin Mary and All Saints.
300 m · Grade I listed church in Little Walsingham, Norfolk, England, UK · Wikipedia
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What Wikivoyage says to see
Seals. From Morston, take a ferry to see the seals at Blakeney Point for listing and further information of seal colony and viewing trips.
- 01Holkham National Nature Reserve
At 3,900 hectares (9,600 acres), England's largest national nature reserve, comprising of grazing marsh, woodland, salt marsh, sand dunes and foreshore.
- 02Holkham Hall
Wells-next-the-Sea, NR23 1AB, visitorinformation@holkham.co.uk.
- 03Holkham Beach
Vast, unspoilt sands backed by dunes and pine forest—often ranked among England’s finest beaches.
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Things to do
- 01Wells and Walsingham Light Railway
Wells Next-the-Sea NR23 1QB (on A149), wellswalsinghamrailway@gmail.com.
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Where to eat
- 01The Globe Inn
- 02The Picnic Hut
- 03Wells Crab House
- 04Fortune House Chinese Take Away
16 Northfield Ln, Wells-Next-The-Sea, NR23 1LQ,.
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Getting to Walsingham
- Airports
- London Stansted (STN), 120 km · London Luton (LTN), 141 km · East Midlands (EMA), 148 km
- Stations
- Wighton Halt railway station, 2.7 km
- London, Essex → Walsingham168 km · quickest by road, 3h 27m · £18–23
- London → Walsingham168 km · quickest by road, 3h 27m · £18–23
- Luton, Luton → Walsingham143 km · quickest by road, 2h 56m · £16–21
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Walsingham
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Walsingham. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inThe route follows mainly minor roads and some off-road paths along the coastline, and is signposted: from the south: Norwich and Dover, Kent from the west: King's Lynn and Tain, Highland.
- Get aroundMost parts of Wells are accessible on foot, using pavements, off-road footpaths or shopping streets.
- Get aroundWells Beach is over a mile to the north of Wells Quay, accessible using off-road footpaths, with its own car park.
From Wikivoyage: Wells-next-the-Sea, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.
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Next door to Walsingham
- Great Snoringvillage in Norfolk, England, UK2.6 km
- Wightonvillage in Norfolk, England, UK3.1 km
- Barshamcivil parish in Norfolk, UK3.7 km
- Houghton St Gilesvillage in Norfolk, UK1.5 km
- East Barshamvillage in Norfolk, UK3.4 km
- North Barshamvillage in Norfolk, UK2.7 km