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Lindisfarne

British  
/ ˈlɪndɪsˌfɑːn /

noun

  1. another name for Holy Island

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Laura Knowles works at Lindisfarne Castle as a visitor operations and experience manager for the National Trust, and was there during filming.

From BBC Oct. 30, 2025

As a side note, Lindisfarne remains so small and remote that it doesn’t even have any doctors today.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 19, 2025

A couple hundred people have settled into a safe-enough life on Lindisfarne, an island that’s less than a mile from shore.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 19, 2025

Vikings destroyed the monastery of Lindisfarne in the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Northumbria, which had been a celebrated center of learning.

From Textbooks Apr. 19, 2023

In the same year in which King Egfrid departed this life,739 he, as has been said, caused the holy and venerable Cuthbert740 to be ordained bishop of the church of Lindisfarne.

From Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England by Bede, Cuthbert

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