Lundy
— the granite island the puffins gave their name to.
Not only on a wall.
“A granite island three miles long in the Bristol Channel, twelve miles off the North Devon coast. The name comes from Old Norse Lundey, puffin island, and the seabird colonies still nest along the west cliffs each spring. About twenty-eight people live there year-round, the MS Oldenburg ferry runs from Bideford and Ilfracombe, and the only village holds a tavern, a church and a single shop.
Lundy, on ceramic.
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Lundy is a granite island in the Bristol Channel, lying about 19 kilometres (12 miles) off the coast of North Devon, England, where the channel meets the Atlantic. It measures roughly three miles long by half a mile wide, with cliffs rising to 142 metres at its highest point. The island has belonged to the National Trust since 1969 and is managed under a long lease by the Landmark Trust. The resident population is about 28, served by a single village at the south end.
Lundy keeps a particular kind of quiet. There are no cars on the island and no street lighting outside the village; the dark-sky conditions are among the best in southwest England. The MS Oldenburg sails from Bideford or Ilfracombe two or three times a week from April to October and crossings take around two hours, weather permitting. In winter, helicopter charters from Hartland Point are the only access, and the island can spend days at a time entirely on its own.
The name is the Old Norse Lundey, puffin island, and Atlantic puffins still nest along the west cliffs between April and July, alongside guillemots, razorbills, Manx shearwaters and kittiwakes. The waters around Lundy became Britain's first statutory Marine Nature Reserve in 1986 and were redesignated a Marine Conservation Zone in 2010, protecting kelp forests, pink sea fans and a resident colony of grey seals. The Lundy cabbage, a yellow-flowered crucifer found nowhere else on earth, grows on the eastern sidlands.