4961 x 3508 px | 42 x 29,7 cm | 16,5 x 11,7 inches | 300dpi
Date de la prise de vue:
19 juin 2008
Lieu:
Bardsey Island and Bardsey Sound, Llyen Peninsula, Gwynnedd, North Wales, United Kingdom.
Informations supplémentaires:
An elevated, early evening view, taken from the headland of Mynydd Mawr near to the Coastguard lookout post, looking over Bardsey Sound to Bardsey Island (Ynys Enlli). Bardsey Island lies about two miles off the tip of the Lleyn Peninsula in North Wales. The Island was bought by the Bardsey Island Trust in 1979. It is managed by the Trust in conjunction with the Countryside Council for wales and CADW. Bardsey is a National Nature Reserve, Site of Special Scientific Interest, which is both nationally and internationally important for wildlife and part of the Lleyn Environmentally Sensitive Area. On the Island is a famous monastery which used to attract a large number of Pilgrims with Aberdaron being the usual place of embarkation for the Island. The Abbey ruins which are preserved today is the thirteenth century Augustinian Abbey of St.Mary's and was in use until the dissolution of the Monasteries in 1537, after which Bardsey was left to the pirates and marauders until the establishment of a farming and fishing community in the mid-eighteenth century. Situated on the South-West of the Island is the 30m lighthouse. Built in 1821 it is the tallest square-towered lighthouse in the United Kingdom.
