A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
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A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
COQUET ISLAND, an island in Northumberland; about a mile E by S of the mouth of the Coquet river, and 5 SE by S of Alnmouth. It is about a mile in circuit; and has good pasture and a rabbit warren. It was a resort of the Culdees in the times of the Northumbrian kings; it had afterwards a Benedictine monastery, sub-ordinate to Tynemouth priory; and it was fortified against the Scots, and taken by them in the time of Charles I. A lighthouse, erected in 1841, is on its south-west side and 80 feet high; and the passage between this and the mainland is full of reefs.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "an island" (ADL Feature Type: "islands") |
| Administrative units: | Northumberland AncC |
| Place: | Coquet Island |
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