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Lindisfarne, also known as Holy Island, is a tidal island off the northeast coast of England, which constitutes the civil parish of Holy Island in Northumberland. [3] Holy Island has a recorded history from the 6th century AD; it was an important centre of Celtic Christianity under Saints Aidan, Cuthbert, Eadfrith, and Eadberht of Lindisfarne.
Lindisfarne National Nature Reserve is a 3,541-hectare (8,750-acre) UK national nature reserve. [1] It was founded to help safeguard the internationally important wintering bird populations, [ 2 ] and six internationally important species of wildfowl and wading birds winter here.
Lindisfarne Castle is a 16th-century castle located on Holy Island, near Berwick-upon-Tweed, Northumberland, England, much altered by Sir Edwin Lutyens in 1901. The ...
Cuthbert of Lindisfarne [a] (c. 634 – 20 March 687) was a saint of the early Northumbrian church in the Celtic tradition. He was a monk , bishop and hermit , associated with the monasteries of Melrose and Lindisfarne in the Kingdom of Northumbria , [ b ] today in northern England and southern Scotland.
The Farne Islands are associated with the story of Grace Darling and the wreck of the Forfarshire.Grace Darling was the daughter of Longstone lighthouse-keeper (one of the islands' lighthouses), William Darling, and on 7 September 1838, when she was aged 22, with her father she rescued nine people from the wreck of the Forfarshire in a strong gale and thick fog, the vessel having run aground ...
Aidan of Lindisfarne [a] (Irish: Naomh Aodhán; died 31 August 651) was an Irish monk and missionary credited with converting the Anglo-Saxons to Christianity in Northumbria.
Folio 27r from the Lindisfarne Gospels contains the incipit from the Gospel of Matthew.. The Lindisfarne Gospels (London, British Library Cotton MS Nero D.IV) is an illuminated manuscript gospel book probably produced around the years 715–720 in the monastery at Lindisfarne, off the coast of Northumberland, which is now in the British Library in London. [1]
Holy Island War Memorial, or Lindisfarne War Memorial, is a First World War memorial on the tidal island of Lindisfarne (or Holy Island) off the coast of Northumberland in the far north east of England. Designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens, the memorial is a grade II* listed building.