View of Lindisfarne Castle, Holy Island of Lindisfarne, Northumberland
Northumbria, landscape, Lee Karen Stow, Christianity, religion, pilgrimage, sand, tide, wooden stakes, markers, walk, walkway, devotion, dedication, spirituality, low tide, St Cuthbert, St Aiden, love, peace, devotion, truth, honesty, trek, North East, northern, sand, wet, pool, water, tide, tidal, global warming, environment, environmental, atop the volcanic mound known as Beblowe Craig, Lindisfarne Castle is one of the most distinct and picturesque features of the Island. Following the dissolution of the monasteries by Henry VIII, the Castle was built in the 1550's using stones from the demolished Priory. In 1901, Edward Hudson founder of Country Life magazine negotiated its purchase from the Crown and in 1902 Sir Edwin Lutyens the well-known architect began the conversion to create the Edwardian country house you see today. The Walled Garden originally the Fort's vegetable garden but re-designed by Gertrude Jekyll in 1911
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