Source: the venue’s website, checked on 02/11/2026.
Off the coast of Devon, Lundy is a granite island five kilometres long, where the Landmark Trust, a charity that rescues buildings at risk, lets 23 houses, from a 13th-century castle to a lighthouse. In 2000 there were 13 puffins on the island. Today there are 1,335.
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From 2003 to 2006 the Landmark Trust, the National Trust, Natural England and the RSPB cleared the island of the rats that ate the eggs. Twenty years on, more than 40,000 seabirds nest here, including 25,000 Manx shearwaters, 95% of the UK population. The houses, almost all built of the island’s granite, have no television or telephone, and the electricity is usually off from midnight to 6am.
A team rents several houses in the village and meets at the Marisco Tavern, the island pub, next to the shop, the campsite and the farm. From April to October the MS Oldenburg, the island’s own ship, sails several times a week from Bideford or Ilfracombe; from November to March a helicopter flies from Hartland Point on Mondays and Fridays, in seven minutes. Travel is not included in the rental.
Photo credits : Gareth James (Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0) ; Stephen McKay (Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0)
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