Volume Twelve - Pre-Victorian to the Present Day - further aspects - The Bristol Channel District Guide - selected articles - [1934 Edition] . . . .

Bidding " au revoir " to Weston Pier, the steamer's head is directed for the Holms, the two islands standing in mid-channel. The course generally taken is between them to the northern shore of the Steep Holm, on which Githa, the mother of King Harold, sought refuge and died after the defeat of her son at the Battle of Hastings. There also Gildas, the historian, stayed for some time and wrote his history, until compelled by importunate pirates to seek seclusion elsewhere.