Crown and Anchor, Holy Island

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About
The Crown & Anchor is an independently run inn situated at the heart of Holy Island. We have a cosy, dog friendly bar, restaurant, beer garden and accommodation.

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Reviews

562 reviews

4.6/5

Matthew Harvey

3 months ago

Overall, a lovely lunch with beers at The Crown and Anchor. Good portion sizes of well cooked food for the children, well kept ale, excellent service, and all in a beautifully kept and well maintained building. No complaints whatsoever, very happy with our visit.

Melissa de Lusignan

7 months ago

We had a brilliant stay (6 nights) at the Crown & Anchor. The staff, service and food are all first-class. The triple room was clean, comfortable and a perfect location just minutes walk from our archaeological dig. The breakfasts were delicious and every evening meal was memorable. Highly recommended for a beer, meal or overnight stay. We will definitely be back.

maria coleman

7 months ago

Did not stay at the property, was visiting the island for the day. Popped in for food.Staff were friendly and welcoming, helpful too with menu queries. We had the most delicious gluten free fish and chips. Chips were great, the fish had lovely crispy batter. So nice to be able to have proper fish and chips at the seaside. The whole menu looked very tasty with lots of gluten/ dairy free options. Really nice little pub, I highly recommend a visit, we will certainly return when we visit Lindisfarne again.

Keith Mulhearn

7 months ago

Literally had the best fish and chips ever and that's quite a boast. Great service, friendly staff, lovely room. Didn't think it could get any better until breakfast the next day, absolutely everything was cooked to perfection, served with a friendly smile, very relaxing, great start to the day. Not much else l can say, apart from make a booking.

Chris Davison

8 months ago

Stayed here for 2 nights as they have 1 of their 4 rooms that's dog friendly. The room was ok, nice and clean and a nice bathroom and shower. The view was great overlooking the priory ruins although we did feel it was a little bit too small to have stayed here for longer than a couple of nights with a dog, but it's a perfect location and easy walking distance to everything else of interest. The bar is nice despite being fairly small, very friendly staff and good service, and an extremely good selection of malt whisky (some quite rare and reflected in the price). The evening meals were very good, the burger and spicy veggie burger in particular were really good. Breakfast was really nice on the first day, not the biggest plate full but very tasty full English, cereals, toast, juice etc, and we even got a sausage for the dog. The only reason we'd give it 4 stars and not 5 is the breakfast on the second day was not as good, smaller portions for my partner (just 1 egg when she ordered egg & beans) and both breakfasts were not very hot. That said, we would stay again despite there being cheaper options on the island.