Lundy
a granitic island of Devonshire, England, in the mouth of the Bristol Channel, 11% miles N. N. W. of Hartland Point; length 3½ miles, breadth 1 mile; has rocky and precipitous shores, with only one landing-place on the S. side; and an altitude of 525 feet; near the S. end is a lighthouse, built in 1820. The cliffs are the resort of multitudes of sea-fowl. The antiquities include prehistoric kists, remains of round towers and a chapel, and the ruined castle of the Mariscoes (11th to 14th centuries), from whose time on into the 17th century Lundy was a stronghold successively of pirates, buccaneers, privateers, and smugglers. It figures in Kingsley's "Westward Ho!"; was the death-place of "Judas" Stukely; garrisoned till 1647 for Charles I.; and in 1834 purchased for $49,350 by the Heaven family.
LUNDY'S LANE