St Cuthbert's Cave, a spectacular south-facing location on the Kyloe Hills in Northumberland, between Belford and Lowick, is a place steeped in legend.
In the late 9th century, the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, records that as the Danes ravaged Lindisfarne, Eardulf, the bishop of Lindisfarne, along with abbot Eadred and the rest of the early Christian community were forced to flee the island, taking the body of their beloved Cuthbert to seek a place of safety and sanctuary.
This natural sandstone cave has long been associated with a legend as being a place, a few miles in from the coast, where they rested and took shelter.
However, another legend suggest it was a place where Cuthbert himself lived as an anchorite hermit, before moving to the Farne Islands – maybe it was both!
The cave, formed of overhanging rock and sufficiently large to provide shelter for a small group, are in the care of the National Trust.

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