Travelling to the Sacred Well in Walsingham Norfolk (Sacred Spring in England)

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Going north along the Cam from Cambridge (and joining the Great Ouse) takes you to the cathedral city of Ely. According to the Cambridge Rambler's page Pilgrims Way, Ely was a staging point for pilgrimages to Walsingham going via Brandon, Weeting, Cranwich, Swaffham, Castle Acre and Sculthorpe. Up until the start of the 18th Century, the Cam was navigable from the sea and the area around north and north east of Cambridge was basically marshland and so taking the straight line to Walsingham was likely to be impossible.

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