Finding the Way: Understanding Historic Pilgrimage Routes to Walsingham Dr James Albone Norfolk County Council Environment Service Understanding the Impact of Pilgrimage on People & Place Conference Norwich Cathedral 10th September 2019 www.finds.org.uk ID: PUBLIC-BH34ED35 www.finds.org.uk ID: PUBLIC-3B318D Walsingham Way – Cartographic Evidence Hillington 18th Century? (Norfolk Record Office NRS 21381) East Lexham Mid-18th Century (Norfolk Record Office C/Ca 3/8/B) Walsingham Way – Documentary Evidence “As for the fensying of your dykes, and ze shuld felle your bordorys off your wode the Suthsyde, viz., toward Pykenham fro the Wonges to Walsyngham Waye is lxxx. Rodde at leste” Letter from John Osborn to Sir John Paston 1472. The Paston Letters Gairdner (ed.) (1904) “Item half an acre more lying in the same furlong Walsingham way lying through the north end of the same and butts southward on ye lands of William Corchever” Terrier for Letheringsett dated 1615 cited in Whatmore (1973) Walsingham Way Cartographic and Documentary Evidence WALSINGHAM Reproduced from an Ordnance Survey map with the permission of the Controller of HMSO © Crown Copyright Licence 100019340 Some Notable Pilgrims to Walsingham Erasmus (1512) King Henry VIII (1447) King David of Scotland (1360s) King Edward I (1277) Catherine of Aragon (1517) John, Duke of Brittany & the Duke of Anjou (1360s) Charles Brandon, Duke of Suffolk (1517) King Henry III (1226) Walsingham Way and Walsingham Pilgrims All Sources WALSINGHAM Reproduced from an Ordnance Survey map with the permission of the Controller of HMSO © Crown Copyright Licence 100019340 Walsingham Pilgrimage Routes Wells Blakeney WALSINGHAM North Bromholm Priory Walsham Fakenham Aylsham From the King’s Lynn Castle St Benet’s Midlands Acre Abbey & the North Swaffham Norwich Great Yarmouth Brandon Thetford Diss From London Reproduced from an Ordnance Survey map with the permission of the Controller of HMSO © From Bury St Edmunds and Woolpit Crown Copyright Licence 100019340 London to Walsingham Briggate als. London Way als. Walsingham Way Toftrees Field Book c.1590 (Norfolk Record Office BL 37/1) Litcham Priory Castle Acre Sporle Castle Acre Priory Walsingham Pilgrimage Routes Wells Blakeney WALSINGHAM North Bromholm Priory Walsham Fakenham Aylsham From the King’s Lynn Castle St Benet’s Midlands Acre Abbey & the North Swaffham Norwich Great Yarmouth Brandon Thetford Diss From London Reproduced from an Ordnance Survey map with the permission of the Controller of HMSO © From Bury St Edmunds and Woolpit Crown Copyright Licence 100019340 Norwich to Walsingham WALSINGHAM Fakenham Beck Hospital & Chapel, Billingford Bawdeswell Taverham St Walstan’s Well, Costessey Norwich Reproduced from an Ordnance Survey map with the permission of the Controller of HMSO © Crown Copyright Licence 100019340.