1 March 2022 | Author/Destination: Great Britain / Großbritannien | Rubric: General, House of the Month
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Holy Island © flickr.com – Chris Combe/cc-by-2.0
Lindisfarne, also called 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 of Lindisfarne,
Cuthbert,
Eadfrith of Lindisfarne and
Eadberht of Lindisfarne. After the
Viking invasions and the
Norman conquest of England, a
priory was reestablished. A small castle was built on the island in 1550.
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22 February 2022 | Author/Destination: Great Britain / Großbritannien | Rubric: General
Reading Time: 12 minutes
Boats in Holyhead Harbour © geograph.org.uk – Mat Fascione/cc-by-sa-2.0
Holyhead is a town in
Wales and a major
Irish Sea port serving
Ireland. It is also a
community and the
largest town in the
Isle of Anglesey county, with a population of 13,659 at the 2011 census. Holyhead is on
Holy Island, which is separated from Anglesey by the narrow
Cymyran Strait and was originally connected to Anglesey via the
Four Mile Bridge. In the mid-19th century,
Lord Stanley, a local philanthropist, funded the building of a larger
causeway, known locally as “The Cobb”, it now carries the
A5 and the
railway line. The
A55 dual carriageway runs parallel to the Cobb on a modern causeway.
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