Manor Farm Barn with Janie

This is an advert for you to come and stay at Jane Davidson-Houston's wonderful Bed & Breakfast next time you decide to visit the National Shrine of Our Lady in Walsingham! Janie lives in Tatterford, which is a small village 15 minutes drive away. Here is the review in Alistair Sawday's 'Special Places to Stay' (although Janie no longer pays the subscription because it failed to attract business from this source):

Extraordinarily kind hosts - who really enjoy having people to stay in their light, bright, 200-year-old-barn / smithy with its cosy country feel. Eat together in the farmhouse kitchen (Aga, candles above the table, dried flowers on the beams), then retire to the sitting room (logs in the grate, rugs on boards). Bedrooms are fun and informal, the quietest up in the roof. Outside are wild flowers, free-range hens and home-grown veg and fruit - expect delicious food. Jane's an imaginative cook, as well as a painter, and there's plenty to inspire artists with Walsingham close by. Birdwatching and bicycling too!

What this review doesn't mention is the wonderful air of holiness! Janie is certainly very Catholic, even though her husband is a staunch Anglican - and there are all sorts of books and devotional material scattered around... even a statue of Our Lady in what could almost be a chapel next to the kitchen, which also contains her religious library and a piano. People have even hung various rosaries onto this statue, as countless extend their pilgrimage into their place of board. Janie is very accomodating, although gets booked up quite quickly, and is completely full for the annual Youth 2000 pilgrimage during the August bank holiday, when she has all the musicians to stay!

So come to Walsingham and stay with Janie; and you'll have the most wonderful pilgrimage to a most wonderful place. I asked many questions when I first went - and God has unceasingly shown me the answers.

Jane (and Michael) Davidson-Houston
Manor Farm Barn
Tatterford
Nr Fakenham
Norfolk
NR21 7AZ
01485 528393