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* Lindisfarne Castle, on Lindisfarne, Northumberland
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Lindisfarne and Castle
Lindisfarne also has the small Lindisfarne Castle, based on a Tudor fort, which was refurbished in the Arts and Crafts style by Sir Edwin Lutyens for the editor of Country Life, Edward Hudson.
Hudson was a great admirer of Lutyens ' style and commissioned Lutyens for a number of projects, including Lindisfarne Castle and the Country Life headquarters building in London, at 8 Tavistock Street.
She was a frequent visitor to Lindisfarne Castle in northern England, where a cello now rests in the Music Room in commemoration of her time spent there.
About to the south on a point of coastal land is the ancient fortress of Dunstanburgh Castle and about to the north is Lindisfarne Castle on Holy Island.
Lindisfarne Castle in England and Muchalls Castle ( 14th century ) in Scotland are among many examples of buildings with surviving flagstone floors.
At this time it was owned by Edward Hudson, the owner of Lindisfarne Castle and various Lutyens-designed houses including The Deanery in Sonning.
Lindisfarne Castle, which served as the home in the film, is now a National Trust property and can be toured by the public ; despite the passage of forty years, the building and its surroundings are largely unchanged.
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.
Lindisfarne and on
* Carmichael, Alexander ( 1992 ) Carmina Gadelica: Hymns and Incantations ( with illustrative notes on wards, rites, and customs dying and obsolete / orally collected in the Highlands and Islands of Scotland ) Hudson, NY, Lindisfarne Press, ISBN 0-940262-50-9
In 793, a Viking raid on Lindisfarne caused much consternation throughout the Christian west, and is now often taken as the beginning of the Viking Age.
These signs were followed by great famine, and on 8 January the ravaging of heathen men destroyed God's church at Lindisfarne.
The more popularly accepted date for the Viking raid on Lindisfarne is 8 June ; Michael Swanton, editor of Routledge's edition of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, writes " vi id Ianr, presumably an error for vi id Iun ( June 8 ) which is the date given by the Annals of Lindisfarne ( p. 505 ), when better sailing weather would favour coastal raids.
A Dundee firm built lime kilns on Lindisfarne in the 1860s, and lime was burnt on the island until at least the end of the 19th century.
In 1972, poet William Irwin Thompson named his Lindisfarne Association after the monastery on the island.
Lindisfarne ( particularly the castle ) is the setting of the Roman Polanski film Cul-de-Sac ( 1966 ) with Donald Pleasence and Lionel Stander, shot entirely on location there.
* Lindisfarne is where the main character of Harry goes to on pilgrimage in the book " Kingdom by the Sea " by Robert Westall.
* Wells Tower's short story, " Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned ," is centred around a Viking raid on Lindisfarne.
One British folk / rock band ( 1969 – 2003 ), Lindisfarne, was even named after the island, while a Celtic Christian progressive rock band named after another island, Iona, has a song devoted to Lindisfarne on its album Journey into the Morn ( 1995 ).
Singer-songwriter James Blake included a two-part suite about Lindisfarne on his self-titled debut album ( 2011 ).
In England the Viking Age began dramatically on 8 June 793 when Vikings destroyed the abbey on Lindisfarne, a centre of learning famous across the continent.
More than any other single event, the attack on Lindisfarne cast a shadow on the perception of the Vikings for the next twelve centuries.
Lindisfarne and Northumberland
Lindisfarne had a large lime burning industry, and the kilns are among the most complex in Northumberland.
The Lindisfarne Gospels ( London, British Library Cotton MS Nero D. IV ) is an Illuminated manuscript gospel book produced around the year 700 AD in a monastery off the coast of Northumberland at Lindisfarne, which is now on display in the British Library in London.
Lindisfarne, also known as “ Holy Island ,” is located off the coast of Northumberland in northern England ( Chilvers 2004 ).
The Reserves are scattered through England, from Lindisfarne in Northumberland to The Lizard in Cornwall.
Islandshire was an area of Northumberland, England, comprising Lindisfarne or Holy Island, plus five parishes on the mainland.
It was anciently an exclave of County Durham after being purchased for the Bishopric of Lindisfarne between 900 and 915, but became part of the jurisdiction of Northumberland in 1844 under the Counties ( Detached Parts ) Act 1844.
More recently, they reached Lindisfarne in Northumberland in September 1995, and the Shetland Islands in 1987.
In 1968, they were joined by Alan Hull and became Lindisfarne after the island of that name off the coast of Northumberland.
Much of the estate was put up for sale and the house became a private school, Lindisfarne College ( which took its name from the island of Lindisfarne in Northumberland although it had no connection with the island ).
The film was shot in 1965 on location on the island of Lindisfarne ( also known as Holy Island ) off the coast of Northumberland, England.
At one time the suburb was known as Beltana from 1892, but, because of confusion with Bellerive, it was renamed Lindisfarne in 1903 after Lindisfarne a tidal Island ( Holy Island ) in Northumberland, England.
St Cuthbert's Way is a long-distance trail between the Scottish Borders town of Melrose and Lindisfarne ( Holy Island ) off the coast of Northumberland, England.
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