Wells and WalNorfolksingham - UK

Wells- Next- The- Sea is a traditional seaside town on the beautiful North Norfolk coast.  It's a home to everything we love about the seaside - amusement arcades, hungry seagulls , fish'n'chips, ice cream
and cookies.  But it's also so much more, a most interesting and fascinating place, charming ,picturesque and historical.
Explore creeks and salt marshes teeming with bird life, walk along sandy beaches on a seaside break, or take a boat trip to see the seal colony, Castle church and abbey ruins are just waiting to be discovered, along with art galleries, steam railways, a reconstructed from Iron Age village and cycle ways galore.

Wells and Walsingham Light Railway

This unique railway opened in 1982 and is the longest 10 1/4 in narrow gauge steam railway in the world. The unique and powerful locomotives ' Norfolk Hero' and ' Norfolk Heroine' were built especially for this line.

Walsingham

No visit to Walsingham would be complete without a visit to each of the shrines that make the village so famous. Sadly, the original Roman Catholic shrine was destroyed during the reformation, but the

Slipper Chapel, a 14th century wayside pilgrim chapel, was restored and named.

The Roman Catholic National Shrine of our Lady in 1934.

The Anglican shrine church, The Shrine of Our Lady of  Walsingham, was built in the 20th century and is where the Holy House is located - a replica of the home in Nazareth of the Holy Family.

Don't miss the image of our Lady of Walsingham carved in 1922  and copied from the seal of the medieval priory which was suppressed in 1538.

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