When you think of locations associated with Jesus, a small island off the coast of Cornwall may not be what first comes to mind.
Looe Island, just one mile off the coast of from the harbour town Looe has a rather varied history, from becoming a pilgrimage site, to being known as a hotbed of smuggling.
Perhaps one of the stranger stories of the island is the legend that as a young boy, Jesus Christ once visited with his uncle Joseph of Arimathea in order to trade for some Cornish tin.
The story suggests that Looe Island was the tin trading centre of Ictis, described by Diodorus Siculus in the Bibliotheca historica. There are a number of British islands that claim to have Ictis, including Cornwall's St Michael's Mount, Devon's Mount Batten peninsula and the Isle of Wight.
While it's unknown if Jesus ever did actually visit Ictis, or if this was Looe Island, there is evidence that Phoenician tin trading did take place in Cornwall.
After the legend of Jesus's visit to Cornwall began to spread, Looe Island, then known as St Michael's Island, became a popular pilgrimage site until Henry VIII's Dissolution of the Monasteries.
Following this the island was renamed St George's Island and began to receive rather different visitors as it became a hotbed of smuggling, with illicit items arriving on the island before being transported to the mainland.
From 1743 the island was privately owned by the Trewlaney family before later being owned by Henry St. John Dix from 1912 and then sisters Evelyn and Roselyn from 1965 until Roselyn's death in 2004.
Roselyn left the island to the Cornwall Wildlife Trust, who now run the island as a nature reserve.