Lundy
Lundy is a smaa island in the Bristol Channel, aboot 12 mile frae the nortren shore o Devon. It is aboot 3.5 mile long an ½ mile wide. Aboot 30 fawk live on the island, an 17,000–20,000 tourists visit it in one year.[1][2]
In the 13t centurie the pirate William de Marisco used Lundy as a base o operations. Frae 1836 tae 1917, Lundy wis owned bi the Heaven faimily. It wis also kent as the Kingdom of Heaven ("Kinrick o Heaven") at that time.[3]
References
[eedit | eedit soorce]- ↑ "Forget far-away lands: Lundy Island, off the coast of Devon, offers the chance to 'get away from it all". The Independent. 27 October 2014. Archived frae the original on 7 Mey 2019. Retrieved 7 Mey 2019.
- ↑ "Welcome to Lundy, where it feels like the 1950s - and Britain is still booming". The Guardian. 5 Januar 2009. Retrieved 7 Mey 2019.
- ↑ "Lundy: My family and the Kingdom of Heaven". The Telegraph. 5 November 2011. Retrieved 7 Mey 2019.