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Places worth your time in Holy Island & the causeway coast
Lieux incontournables
Monuments, musées, parcs et points de vue dans le quartier et ses environs.
English Heritage's ruined priory with the 'rainbow arch', a museum with Anglo-Saxon name stones and a family trail; check the tide before visiting.
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16th-century fort on a rocky crag, altered by Sir Edwin Lutyens in 1901 and now cared for by the National Trust.
Parish church beside the priory on the site of St Aidan's wooden church of AD 635; restored in 1860.
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Small walled garden laid out by Gertrude Jekyll in 1911, north of the castle and looked after with it by the National Trust.
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Lime kilns built by a Dundee firm in the 1860s below the castle; lime was burnt here until about 1900.
First World War memorial cross on the Heugh, designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens; grade II* listed.
Metal tower with a black triangle on the Heugh, one of three Trinity House beacons guiding boats into the harbour.
Tiny tidal islet off the village with the remains of a medieval chapel, linked by tradition to St Cuthbert.
Dunes, mudflats and salt marsh covering 3,541 hectares; the only regular UK wintering ground for pale-bellied brent geese from Svalbard.
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Headland at the north-east corner of the island, marked by a white pyramid-shaped daymark.
Traces of the 19th-century waggonways that carried limestone from the north of the island to the kilns and jetties.
Remains of a fort on the Heugh above the harbour, close to the war memorial.
Listed tower and stable at Snook House at the west end of the island, passed on the causeway road.
Road over the sands from Beal, about three miles long; Wikipedia notes tide tables are posted at both ends.
Line of marker posts across the sands to the island; the council says to walk it only in daylight and never on a rising tide.
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