A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
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A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
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.
(John Bartholomew, Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887))
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| Feature Description: | "peninsula" (ADL Feature Type: "capes") |
| Administrative units: | Northumberland AncC |
| Place names: | HOLY ISLAND | HOLY ISLAND OR LINDISFARNE | LINDISFARNE |
| Place: | Holy Island |
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