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3 unusual facts about Holy Island


Four Mile Bridge

The bridge is one of three connecting the Anglesey mainland to the smaller Holy Island and was the sole route until the construction of the Stanley Embankment in 1823.

Raymond Monelle

Most famous classes were his “Wagner Project Weeks” in which he took students for a week away from Edinburgh to Holy Island, off the shores of Eastern Scotland, for a week of listening and study of Wagner’s Der Ring des Nibelungen.

Robert Tichborne

In July 1662 Tichborne was removed, to Holy Island, where he fell very ill, and was on his wife's petition transferred to Dover Castle.



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St Boswells

In the 7th century Northumbria was ruled by the pagan leader Oswald who, upon converting to Christianity, established, with the help of St Aidan, a monastery at Lindisfarne, the Holy Island.