Holy Island, Northumberland

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Holy Island is a village in Northumberland

Other current and historical names

Location and coordinates are for the approximate centre of Holy Island within this administrative area. Geographic features and populated places may cross administrative borders.

Holy Island in historic gazetteers

Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887). John Bartholomew

Holy Island (or Lindisfarne), peninsular par., coast of N. Northumberland, 9½ miles SE. of Berwick on Tweed, 2457 ac. (17 water), 328 tidal water, and 3977 foreshore, pop. 686; P.O.; though insulated at high tide, it is connected with the mainland by sands at low water; is 3 miles long and 1¾ mile broad; in the N. it consists of sand hills, which form a large rabbit warren; the remainder is fertile; on the NE. are a small harbour defended by a battery, a village frequented for sea-bathing, annd a once famous abbey founded in 635 as a hishop's see but destroyed by the Danes in 900.

Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887). John Bartholomew

Lindisfarne, or HOLY ISLAND: which see.

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