Lindisfarne Castle stands sentry over its small kingdom of Holy Island. The castle was built in 1959 using stones from the skeleton of the near by ruin abby, and was designed as a fortress against the marauding Scots and their allies the French. By the 1900's the castle had fallen into ruin and in 1902 it was bought by Edward Hudson, founder of Country Life magazine. he commissioned the architect Sir Edwin Lutyens to restore the castle and in 1968 it was taken over and preserved by the National Trust.
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