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For anyone interested in visiting Bardsey Island, there is no better place to start than here: www.bardsey.org/english/bardsey/welcome.asp. This site gives details of the trust that administers the island as well as information about its arts, archaeology and natural history. It also provides prospective visitors with everything they need in terms of how to book day trips or longer visits, with pictures of all the available accommodation. I can assure anyone thinking of visiting that the journey is exhilarating, the hotels on the mainland are fantastic and that the cottages available for rent are not as spooky as the one Tom Thorne is forced to spend the night in.
www.bardsey.org/english/staying/staying_bardsey.htm
Bardsey is a National Nature Reserve and a Site of Special Scientific Interest. Further details can be found here:
www.bardsey.org/english/the_island/natural_history.htm
Those specifically interested in the island’s birds can get detailed day-by-day reports from the Bird and Field Observatory, with wonderful pictures and up-to-date information about more than 175 species, here: https://bbfo.blogspot.co.uk.
The last King of Bardsey, Love Pritchard, died in 1926, and was buried close to the beach in Aberdaron cemetery. Find out all about him, the kings who ruled before him, and what became of the legendary crown of Bardsey here: www.bardsey.org/english/the_island/king.htm
Bardsey Lighthouse was built in 1821, stands a little over thirty metres high and, unlike almost all other Trinity lighthouses, is square. The top of it is also the only place on the island I was able to get so much as a glimmer of a phone signal, and I dislike heights as much as Tom Thorne.
www.trinityhouse.co.uk/lighthouses/lighthouse_list/bardsey.html
Bardsey’s religious significance, its history as a place of pilgrimage and the story of those twenty thousand saints are detailed here: www.bardsey.org/english/the_island/pilgrims.htm
A remote and all-but-deserted island, cut off from the mainland with no mobile phone signal is, of course, a wonderful place to set a crime novel. In reality, however, I ca
Mark Billingham, London, 2013