Monk's House
Monk's House is a small collection of buildings forming part of Islandshire, that part of County Durham locally situated in Northumberland. It is located roughly halfway between Seahouses and Bamburgh on the Northumberland coast.
It originates in 1257, when Henry II granted the monks of the Farne Islands a plot of land on which they built a granary. As the islands were part of Islandshire in the county of Durham, the Monk's House too became part of it. By the late 18th century Monk's House was an important base for sea fishing, with many cobles used in the herring and white fisheries trade. Most of the buildings seen here today, date from the 19th century, at that time, one of the buildings was a tavern called St Cuthbert's Inn. It is situated between the sand dunes, where the Ingram Burn and Clashope Burn enter the sea.
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- Location map: 55°35’42"N, 1°40’44"W