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Images from our visit (in July 2021) to Lindisfarne (aka Holy Island), Northumberland, England.

(Shot raw and processed using: DxO PL Elite/ ViewPoint/ Nik Collection and Adobe LrC/ PS with Tony Kuyper Panels).

You can find out more about Lindisfarne Priory by clicking Here and Lindisfarne Castle Here.

Phil and Karen


1. Lindisfarne (Holy Island) sits off the coast of Northumberland. Access is by a causeway which is covered by the North Sea at high tide (so ‘great timing’ is generally considered to be a good thing!).

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2. The island is intimately connected with Christianity in Britain. In 635 Northumbrian King Oswald made Irish monk Aidan (from Iona – the island-monastery off the south-west coast of Scotland) bishop of his kingdom. Oswald granted Aidan the island of Lindisfarne on which to found a monastery. The Priory continued as a religious site until it was abandoned in 1537 during the Dissolution of the Monasteries. (The ruins now visible are those of a 12th-century priory).

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3. The 16th-century Lindisfarne Castle’s origins go back to 1549 when a small fort was built on a high rock known as Beblowe.

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4. From the 1550’s up until 1893 the castle was garrisoned by the government, at one point mounting 21 cannons. It later saw action during the English Civil War (1642 to 1651) and the Jacobite Rebellion of 1715.

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5. After Edward Hudson, founder of Country Life magazine, took on the lease on the castle in 1901 he commissioned famed architect Sir Edwin Lutyens to convert the castle into his holiday home and noted garden designer Gertrude ‘Bumps’ Jekyll to refurbish the castle’s gardens.

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6. Lindisfarne Priory is now managed by English Heritage and Lindisfarne Castle is in the care of the National Trust.

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(Sources: English Heritage, National Trust, Wikipedia).
 
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Thanks for sharing these with us Phil and Karen. I feel like we have our own personal UK tour guide here and I really enjoy it.
 
Thanks for sharing these with us Phil and Karen. I feel like we have our own personal UK tour guide here and I really enjoy it.
Hi Bryan,

Cheers, very much appreciated - our pleasure! :)

P&K
 

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