Hildeburh of Hilbre

Saint Hildeburh of Hilbre (Hildeburgh) was an Anglo-⁠Saxon holy woman who is said to have lived in the seventh century as an anchorite on Hilbre Island in the Dee estuary, in north-⁠west England. The island was named after her Hildeburgheye, "Hildeburgh's island". The island may already have been a hermitage before the Norman invasion, or at least a place of pilgrimage built around her memory. St Hildeburgh's Church at Hoylake, built in the nineteenth century on the mainland opposite, bears her name. She is a saint of the undivided Church, honoured locally.