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St Cuthbert's Cave

Near Belford, Northumberland

Where monks fleeing the Vikings rested with the saint's coffin.

In 875, fleeing Viking raids on Lindisfarne, the monks carried the body of St Cuthbert across the north of England. Tradition says they rested here, in a huge sandstone overhang surrounded by woods.

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When
875
Where
55.6000, -1.9000
Group
Caves & grottoes

Visiting

National Trust, free, a walk from Holburn Grange car park. On the St Cuthbert's Way.

Cover of The Ledger of Lost Britain by Cale Mills
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The Ledger of Lost Britain

The Romans arrived in AD 43. For most people that is where the history of Britain begins. But by the time the legions landed, people had already been living on these islands for thousands of years. They had hunted, farmed, mined flint, dragged stones across the country, raised a hill by hand, and buried their dead in great tombs. They left no written words. What they left was the ground itself. Every place in this book can be visited, or has been dug up, or is in a museum.

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