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This small island can only be reached via a mile-long causeway linking it to the mainland. Twice a day the link is cut off by incoming tides which sweep across the sands with great speed.

Lindisfarne - Where Christianity was brought to Northumbria

St. Aiden trod this same route 1300 years ago to found his monastery and bring the word of God to Northumbria. Spirituality still haunts the place, especially when the wind whistles around the sand dunes and overwintering wilfdfowl and waders forage in the sandflats. As seabirds fight the wind and the North Sea crashes against the rocks it is not hard to imagine how hard were the lives of the monks, freezing in their primitive huts, who came to evangelize this wild and beautiful corner of England. Today, naturalists come from around the world to visit Lindisfarne and view the wildlife sanctuary on the nearby Farne Islands and the whole area has a remote, haunting quality.

Lindisfarne - Birthplace of English Christianity

You can walk over the cobbled path up to Lindisfarne Castle and look down at the cold grey waters of the North Sea which, in 793, carried the longboats of the Vikings. The coming of the Danish invaders brought to an end the Golden Age of Northumbria. With names like Eric Blood-Axe and Ivar the Boneless, they were a fearsome lot, bringing disruption and turmoil to the birthplace of English Christianity, where the arts had flourished and people worshipped in peace and security.