Lindisfarne or Holy Island - A Short History and Guide

Harold Hill & Son Ltd, 1967
Holy Island lies a few hundred yards off the Northumbrian coast, sixty miles north of Newcastle. It has a rich history redolent with saints and hermits, the famous Lindisfarne Gospels, herring fisheries and coal mining, coastal forts and the Longstone Lighthouse, a monastery and a priory, life boats, the heroine Grace Darling, and a castle restored by Sir Edwin Lutyens...