Scilly isles bryher biography
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Bryher is the smallest of all the inhabited islands in the Isles of Scilly with a population of around 80 people. It therefore provides a secluded, private and tranquil holiday experience.
Nonetheless it boasts a community centre, bar, restaurant, hotel, camp site and holiday cottages, along with spectacular beaches, cliffs, wild horses and attractive scenery.
Scilly isles bryher biography
A lovely place for a day trip or to stay, Bryher is well worth a visit.
History
Hell Bay is an Atlantic-facing cove which is known for its shipwrecks in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, though this is also sometimes thought to be mythical rather than historical.
Media
Bryher has been made famous by the author Michael Morpurgo, who features the island in his books The Wreck of the Zanzibar, Why the Whales Came and the Sleeping Sword.
As a tribute to the island, Morpurgo donated a small library of books to the community centre there. The place is also found in the movie When the Whales Came and the BB