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We have a selection of self catering holiday homes including farm houses, country houses, country cottages, town houses and apartments. We have a holiday cottage to suit every family and budget, located in the best areas of Northumbria. |
Northumbria was founded in 604 by the union of the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of Deira and Bernicia. Bernicia covered the lands north of the Tees, whilst Deira corresponded roughly to modern-day Yorkshire. The kingdom stretched from the Humber to the Forth. After the Viking invasion of the south of the kingdom in 866 (forming the Viking kingdom of York, or Jorvik) Anglo-Saxon Northumbria shrank to land north of the Tees only.
The kingdom was famed as a centre of religious learning and arts. Initially the Northumbria was Christianised by monks from the Celtic Church, and this led to a flowering of monastic life, with a unique style of religious art that combined Anglo-Saxon and Celtic. After the Synod of Whitby in 664 the Celtic and Catholic Churches united. However the unique style was preserved, with its most famous example being the Lindisfarne Gospels.
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