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©Les Hull
Dist:0.4km<br/>Looking NE from Holystone Common
©Alan Fearon
Dist:0.6km<br/>Strange building?
©Les Hull
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©Les Hull
Dist:0.9km<br/>Tuley tubes in the foreground are designed to protect young saplings.
©Oliver Dixon
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©Les Hull
Dist:0.9km<br/>A very Northumbrian scene with rough pasture, sheep, and numerous polygonal plantations. This is looking across the valley of the River Coquet which lies not far beyond the foremost trees. Wreighill Pike lies on the other side.
©Stephen Richards
Dist:0.9km<br/>A mosaic of moorland, scrub and treelined valleys.
©Andrew Curtis
Dist:0.9km<br/>The footpath through Holystone Common heading south west can be seen to the left of the picture. The path became very muddy soon after this point despite many yards of it being paved with stone flags.
©Slbs
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©Les Hull
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©Andrew Curtis
Dist:1.0km north<br/>This ancient site (much restored by the Victorians) lies just north of Holystone For more on this fascinating Northumbrian village see: http://www.northumberland-national-park.org.uk/VisitorGuide/TimesPast/HistoricVillageAtlas/Holystone/
©Alan Fearon
Dist:1.1km north<br/>Holystone Burn to the left.
©wfmillar
Dist:1.1km north<br/>Lady's Well is a stone water tank of possible Roman date, fed by a natural spring. The well is alongside the Roman road between High Rochester and the River Aln. The stone tank has been completely rebuilt at least once since the Roman period. The well has been a Christian holy site since the medieval period, and may have been the site of early Christian rituals. An alternative name for the well is ‘Ninian’s Well’. Ninian was the Bishop of Whithorn, in south-west Scotland, from AD500-550. It is possible that Ninian visited Holystone, although we have no evidence for such a visit. There is a legend that Paulinus, an early Christian missionary from Italy, converted 3000 people at the well during Easter AD627. In the medieval period, there was an Augustinian convent at Holystone, which may be where the name 'Lady's Well' comes from. In addition to the tank, a 15th century statue, said to be of Paulinus, was brought to the site from Alnwick in 1780. The statue was moved from the centre of the tank in the 19th century and replaced with a wheel cross. Local tradition says an altar-shaped stone near the well is the 'holy' stone, which gives the local village its name.
©Pete Saunders
Dist:1.1km north<br/>The footpath to Craig over Holystone Common fords the burn at this point near St Mungo's Well
©Andrew Curtis

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