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Open daily - check tide times before you visit
See full prices and opening timesRecieve 20% off your walk up ticket when you travel to Lindisfarne Priory by train, bus or bicycle!
Simply show your ticket or bike helmet to a member of staff when you arrive to receive your discount.
Always check the tide times and our opening times before you visit.
Lindisfarne Priory’s museum and shop have recently undergone refurbishment.
New objects have been put into the museum, some of which were excavated very recently. A new monument for St Cuthbert now marks his original burial place and a poem and artwork has been specially commissioned for the Priory. Wander round, take your time, and enjoy the beautiful surroundings. Find out more about things to see and do at the priory below.
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Oswald, King of Northumbria, summons Irish monk Aidan from Iona to be bishop of his kingdom. Oswald grants Lindisfarne to Aidan for his monastery.
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A monk named Cuthbert joins. He is eventually made Prior, but when his reforms prove unpopular, he retires to a small island nearby as a hermit.