1. The showroom of St Aidan's Winery, the home of Lindisfarne Mead, attracts more than 200,000 visitors each year from all over the world - adults can try a free sample!

2. Lindisfarne gained international fame in the 1970s when it was chosen as the name of a Tyneside folk band, whose major hits included Lady Eleanor, Fog On The Tyne - and Fog On The Tyne Revisited with former England footballer Paul Gascoigne.

3. Holy Island can only be reached from the mainland at low tide, by vehicle or foot, across a causeway several miles long. Twice each day, for several hours at a time, the island is cut off by the North Sea. Postal deliveries and bus timetables are therefore governed by the tide.

4. Holy Island is the end point of the popular St Cuthbert's Way long distance footpath, which begins in Melrose in the Scottish borders.

5. The population is now around 180 - most people are aged over 50 and just two youngsters attend the village school. About half of the properties are holiday homes or lets.

6. In the parish church of St Mary the Virgin, the island's oldest building, is a beautiful Celtic carpet, a copy of the St Mark's Carpet page from the Lindisfarne Gospels. It was made by 18 local women in the late-1960s who spent two years embroidering it.

7. The artists Turner, Thomas Girtin and Charles Rennie Mackintosh all painted on Holy Island.

8. To the south of the causeway a series of stakes mark the old route across from the mainland. This is the "Pilgrims Way" that was used in ancient times by visitors and can still be followed, weather and tide permitting. Newcomers are cautioned against using this route unless accompanied by a person with local knowledge.

9. Lindisfarne Castle was built as an artillery fort in the 1530s but saw little military action. It was refurbished into an Edwardian holiday home by the British architect Sir Edwin Lutyens in 1903 and given to the National Trust in 1944. The garden was designed by English horticulturist Gertrude Jekyll.

10. Characteristic sheds, made from cobles (local fishing boats), inverted and cut in half, can still be seen on the island.