Lindisfarne, or Holy Island, has been a place of pilgrimage since the 6th century and remains as popular as ever with visitors of all kinds. Clive Aslet takes a look at its history, and tells the tale ...

Fishing has been central to life on Holy Island in Northumberland for centuries. Now, despite intense opposition, a proposed highly protected marine area – which would effectively kill off local ...

This stunning and remote island is home to Lindisfarne Castle and Priory and is surrounded by breath-taking coastal scenery. Cut off from the world and reached by a causeway only visible at low tide, ...

When traveling to a foreign country for the first time, the opportunities for exploration and discovery are seemingly endless. This quarter, A&E columnist Maryrose Kulick stepped off American soil to ...

A remote coastal spot in Northumberland has been revealed as being one of England’s best and prettiest places to visit, due to its ‘properly stunning’ castle. Holy Island (including Lindisfarne Castle ...

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A trial of a ‘Disney-style’ land train on the Holy Island of Lindisfarne has been put on hold after ‘a groundswell of opposition’, it was revealed yesterday. The green and yellow novelty vehicle, ...

Once there was a mighty power in the North. That great kingdom was called Northumbria and, as the name suggests, it was the Anglo-Saxon state that occupied the land north of the Humber. Its capital ...

This mind-bending illuminated manuscript was created in AD700 by Eadfrith, a monk who was as entranced by pattern and abstraction as Jackson Pollock Eadfrith, according to a 10th-century inscription, ...