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Lindisfarne and Northumberland
The lime kilns on Lindisfarne are among the few being actively preserved in 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 ).
* Lindisfarne, Northumberland
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.
* Lindisfarne, island linked to Northumberland, England
* Lindisfarne Gospels, created on Lindisfarne, Northumberland
* Lindisfarne Castle, on Lindisfarne, Northumberland
* Lindisfarne in Northumberland, England
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.
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 home
This sect made the underground sanctuary Lindisfarne their home base, which housed their sacred text of Qwerty's scripture.
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.
In addition there is also a large recreation park which includes playing fields — home to the Lindisfarne Blues competing in the Southern Tasmanian Football League now known as the SFL and the Lindisfarne Cricket Club competing in the Tasmanian Grade Cricket part of the Tasmanian Cricket Association, tennis courts — home to the Lindisfarne Tennis Club, Beltana RSL Bowls Club links and a ANZAC memorial park, all situated on a bluff overlooking the Derwent River and Mount Wellington.
Lindisfarne is also home to a number of large retirement villages and similar senior-citizen accommodations.
The couple established a home in Lindisfarne, on Hobart ’ s eastern shore, and had a son in 1961.

Lindisfarne and medieval
In The Illuminated Manuscript Backhouse states that, “ The Lindisfarne Gospels is one of the first and greatest masterpieces of medieval European book painting ” ( Backhouse 1979, 10 ).
Milner followed the medieval note in relating the book to Cuthbert, and compared its script to that of the Lindisfarne Gospels, by then in the British Museum, examining the two side by side.
The Bishop of Lindisfarne was the ordinary of several early medieval episcopal sees ( and dioceses ) in Northumbria and pre-Conquest England.
This strongly suggests it pre-dates the Norman and medieval period, being probably either a heraldic symbol of early Mercia or a Celtic Christian symbol brought to Staffordshire by missionary monks from Lindisfarne.

Lindisfarne and monastery
Bede also travelled to the monastery of Lindisfarne, and at some point visited the otherwise unknown monastery of a monk named, a visit that is mentioned in a letter to that monk.
The first recorded Viking attack in Britain was in 793 at Lindisfarne monastery as given by the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle.
The monastery of Lindisfarne was founded by Irish monk Saint Aidan, who had been sent from Iona off the west coast of Scotland to Northumbria at the request of King Oswald ca.
In 1972, poet William Irwin Thompson named his Lindisfarne Association after the monastery on the island.
* The monastery and monks of Lindisfarne are an important part of British author / broadcastor Melvyn Bragg's epic, historically based novel " Credo " published in 1996.
* The sack of Lindisfarne monastery by a fleet of opportunistic Vikings is a pivotal event in Charles Barnitz ' historical fantasy / adventure, The Deepest Sea ( 1996 )
It was recorded in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle that the Northmen raided the important island monastery of Lindisfarne ( note that the generally accepted date is actually 8 June, not January ):
According to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicles, Viking raiders struck England in 793 and raided Lindisfarne, the monastery that held Saint Cuthbert ’ s relics.
* June 8 – Vikings sack the monastery of Lindisfarne, Northumbria, their first major viking attack in England.
A monastery was established on Lindisfarne.
Some monasteries kept up the old traditions of mead-making as a by-product of beekeeping, especially in areas where grapes could not be grown, a well known example being at Lindisfarne, where mead continues to be made to this day, albeit not in the monastery itself.
Edwin had been baptised by Paulinus of York, an Italian who had come with the Gregorian mission from Rome, but his successor Oswald also invited Irish monks from Iona to found the monastery at Lindisfarne where Cuthbert was to spend much of his life.
In 875 the Danes took the monastery of Lindisfarne and the monks fled, carrying with them St Cuthbert's body around various places including Melrose.
In around 635 AD, the Irish missionary Aidan founded the Lindisfarne monastery on “ a small outcrop of land ” on Lindisfarne.
Eadfrith and Ethelwald were both bishops at the monastery of Lindisfarne where the manuscript was produced.
According to Aldred ’ s colophon, the Lindisfarne Gospels were made in honour of God and Saint Cuthbert, a Bishop of the Lindisfarne monastery who was becoming “ Northern England ’ s most popular Saint ”.
The Lindisfarne Gospels manuscript was produced in a scriptorium in the monastery of Lindisfarne.
Born a Northumbrian noble, he entered religious life as a teenager and studied at Lindisfarne, at Canterbury, in Gaul, and at Rome ; he returned to Northumbria in about 660, and became the abbot of a newly founded monastery at Ripon.

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