Lindisfarne

Lindisfarne, appelé localement Holy Island, est une île située en Angleterre, sur la côte de la Northumbrie. Accessible à marée basse par une chaussée submersible, elle abrite un monastère et un château en ruines.

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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. 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. The island was originally home to a monastery, which was destroyed during the Viking invasions but re-established as a priory following the Norman Conquest of England. Other notable sites built on the island are St Mary the Virgin parish church (originally built in 635 CE and restored in 1860), Lindisfarne Castle, several lighthouses and other navigational markers, and a complex network of lime kilns. The island is an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty and a hotspot for historical tourism and bird watching.

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Lindisfarne National Nature Reserve

Lindisfarne National Nature Reserve is a 3,541-hectare (8,750-acre) UK national nature reserve. It was founded to help safeguard the internationally important wintering bird populations, and six internationally important species of wildfowl and wading birds winter here. For the pale-bellied brent geese from Svalbard, this is their only regular wintering place in all of the United Kingdom. Pinkfooted and greylag geese, wigeons, grey plovers and bar-tailed godwits are the other visitors. Lindisfarne National Nature Reserve is a Ramsar site, and as a result is a wetland of international significance.

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Holy Island Waggonway

The Holy Island Waggonway (sometimes referred to as the Holy Island Tramway) was a network of waggonways across the island of Lindisfarne, Northumberland, England. The earliest two lines connected limestone quarries at the northern end of the island with lime kilns and a tidal jetty in waters known as The Basin, northwest of Lindisfarne Priory. A third line down the eastern side of the island eventually replaced the earlier routes. It was built to connect the remaining quarry with new kilns and a pair of new jetties near Lindisfarne Castle. The waggonways had all fallen into disuse by the middle of the 1880s.

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Sack of Lindisfarne

The Sacking of Lindisfarne was a Viking raid in 793 CE, targeting the monastery on Lindisfarne, an island off the northeastern coast of England. The attack was carried out by Norse seafarers and is often considered the beginning of the Viking Age.

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Holy Island Lifeboat Station

Holy Island Lifeboat Station was the collective name given to lifeboat stations located on and around the tidal island of Lindisfarne, also known as Holy Island, which is located approximately 8 nautical miles (15 km; 9.2 mi) south-east of Berwick-upon-Tweed, sitting off the coast of Northumberland. A lifeboat was first stationed here by the Crewe Trustees in 1803. Management of the station was transferred to the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) in 1865. After 166 years, the last of the Holy Island Lifeboat Stations in operation was closed in 1968.

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