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FARNE ISLANDS [also FEARNE, FERN, Or THE STAPLES]

This article appears in Volume V10, Page 183 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: EUD-FAT
FARNE ISLANDS [also FEARNE, FERN, Or THE STAPLES] , a group of rocky islands and reefs off the
coast
  of Northumberland, England, included in that county. In 1901 they had only eleven inhabitants. They extend in a line of some 6 m. in a north-easterly direction from the
coast
 , on which the nearest villages are Bamborough and North Sunderland. The Fairway, 'Z m. across, separates the largest
island
 , Farne, or
House
 , from the mainland. Farne is 16 acres in area, and has precipitous cliffs up to 8o ft. in height on the
east
 , but the shore is otherwise low. The other
principal
  islets are Staple, Brownsman, North and
South
  Wamses, Longstone and Big Harcar. On Farne is a small ancient chapel, with a square tower near it built for purposes of defence in the 15th century. The chapel is believed to occupy the site of St Cuthbert's hermitage, whither he retired from the priory on the neighbouring Holy
Island
  or Lindisfarne. He was with difficulty persuaded to leave it on his
elevation
  to the bishopric of Lindisfarne, and returned to it to die (687).
Long
 -stone
rock
 , with its lighthouse, is famous as the scene of the bravery of Grace Darling in rescuing some of the survivors of the wreck of the " Forfarshire " (1838). The rocks abound in sea-birds, including eider duck.


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