A tiny island nearly 100 miles from Britain with only three pubs, a population of less than a thousand and a ban on cars does ...

Bamburgh, one of Northumberland's crowning jewels, was named among the UK's "most beautiful ... from the enchanting Holy Island of Lindisfarne with its 16th-century castle to the Farne Islands ...

As Visit Northumberland puts it: "Words cannot describe the magic of The Holy Island of Lindisfarne ... in the UK by travel experts. Once the royal capital of the ancient kingdom of Northumbria ...

On the whole the weather was kind to the Carlisle group, apart from at one point during the midweek, but when they finally set foot on the Holy Island of Lindisfarne, after crossing the causeway ...

In 793, Norse raiders stormed the holy island of Lindisfarne - burning, killing, and looting. It wasn’t the first raid on England, but it marked the brutal birth of the Viking Age. UK economy ...

We’re lucky in the UK because there ... Bamburgh Castle and Holy Island. According to The Beach Guide, it is a "beautiful stretch of white sand" with views of Lindisfarne to the north and ...

Fun Fact: Because the Isle of Eigg measures in at only 12 square miles (31 square kilometers), you can absolutely explore the entire island in a weekend. Lindisfarne, sitting off England’s ... are not ...

But the Farne Islands are by no means Northumberland’s only enchanting island range, and if you love visiting remote places (or even living in them) the Holy Island of Lindisfarne will ... CO3 3BZ, ...

Aethelfrith died at the hands of Edwin, a prince whose father he had killed and whose kingdom of Deira ... he established a monastery on Lindisfarne, or Holy Island as it later became known.

Geologists had long known that rocks in Northern England ... Holy Island of Lindisfarne to convert the native people. Almost all of the Borders was Christian by the end of the first millennium. In 843 ...

St Cuthbert’s Way stretches from the Scottish Borders town of Melrose to the Holy Island of Lindisfarne ... kingdom of Northumbria belonged to the Anglo-Saxons in what is now northern England ...