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Most people visit the village of Little Walsingham, in North
Norfolk, to find the Shrine of Our Lady of Walsingham.
However, just outside the village, near to the coach park,
there is a little lane which, in a sense, takes us not only
up and away from the village but back in time.
On 30 May, 1537, for their part in protesting against the
suppression of religious houses by King Henry VIII,
Nicholas Mileham, the Sub-Prior of Walsingham Abbey, and a
fellow 'conspirator, George Gysburgh, walked up this lane to
their death.
They suffered the terrible fate of being hanged, drawn and
quartered in the field on the right hand side, which is
still known to this day as the Martyr's Field.
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