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Walsingham Priory was a monastery of Augustinian Canons regular in Walsingham, Norfolk, England seized by the crown at the Dissolution of the Monasteries under King Henry VIII. The priory is perhaps best known for having housed a Marian shrine with a replica of the house of the Holy Family in Nazareth. Walsingham Abbey Grounds and the Shirehall ...
An example of a senior pass. The English National Concessionary Travel Scheme is a national scheme by the Department for Transport in conjunction with local authorities across England. The scheme extended the provision of free bus travel within individual local authorities to allow travel throughout England from 1 April 2008. [1]
Our Lady of Walsingham. By a rescript of 6 February 1897, Pope Leo XIII blessed a new statue for the restored ancient sanctuary of Our Lady of Walsingham. This was sent from Rome and placed in the Holy House Chapel at the newly built Roman Catholic parish church of King's Lynn (the village of Walsingham was within the parish) on 19 August 1897 and on the following day the first post ...
A £49.5m government grant has enabled the council to launch new routes and lower fares. Norfolk: Bus passenger numbers up by 16% after investment Skip to main content
Walsingham Priory: secular chapel founded before 1066; Augustinian Canons Regular founded 1153 by Geoffrey de Favarches (or the widow of Richoldis de Favarches) incorporating the Chapel of Our Lady of Walsingham (founded before 1066); dissolved 1538; granted to Thomas Sidney 1539/40; now in private ownership with public access Little Walsingham ...
North Norfolk: Walsingham Rural District [35] Hindringham: 457 [232] 13.72 North Norfolk: Walsingham Rural District [35] Hingham: South Norfolk: Forehoe and Henstead Rural District [32] Hockering: 711 [233] 8.10 Breckland: Mitford and Launditch Rural District [41] Hockwold cum Wilton: 1,195 [234] 31.05 King's Lynn and West Norfolk: Downham ...
The village takes its name from the River Hor, which flows through the parish on its course from Horsford to Horstead; and a Benedictine priory, founded in honour of St. Faith that, until the dissolution of the monasteries, stood there. [3] Norwich International Airport, which was first developed in 1939 as RAF Horsham St. Faith is close by. [4]
The major recent event affecting the village was the collapse of its bus services, when the Stagecoach in Norfolk bus company shut down in 2018. No commercial bus company was prepared to take on the routes, so an emergency non-commercial arrangement had to be set up by Norfolk County Council. [39]