I suppose it was seeing the sign advertising “Raw milk for sale” in the little farm shop at Binham Priory that made me realise why walking to Walsingham is in many ways the most authentic of all English pilgrimage routes.
This is because people can still experience the medley of different medieval routes to the Shrine of Our Lady of Walsingham. There is no one path: in fact, that is part of the charm of walking to Walsingham, as I chose to on Good Friday, whether it is from Ely Cathedral or Norwich (along the Walsingham Way), or just strolling ten miles or so to the shrine from one of the many small coastal towns along the Norfolk coast, where many medieval pilgrims would have disembarked from their pilgrim boats, especially around Easter.
