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St Martin's "Public Hall" - St Martin is the only parish other than St Helier whose affairs are not run from a Parish Hall. The parish is a first-level administrative division of the Bailiwick of Jersey, a British Crown dependency. The highest official in the parish is the Connétable of St Martin.
Le Couperon guardhouse is a historic building in the parish of Saint Martin, Jersey. It stands a few metres from Le Couperon dolmen. The guardhouse was built in 1689 of local stone, with brick lintels. It supported a battery on the headland above as a magazine and shelter for the members of the Jersey militia that served the battery. The ...
The Écréhous (or in Jèrriais: Êcrého) are a group of islands and rocks situated six miles (9.6 km) north-east of Jersey, and eight miles (12.8 km) from France. They form part of the Bailiwick of Jersey and are administratively part of the Parish of St Martin.
Le Couperon is a c.3250-2250BC Neolithic dolmen in the parish of Saint Martin, Jersey. Le Couperon is about an eight-metres (26-foot) long capstone chamber that a long mound had originally covered. It was surrounded by a ring of eighteen outer stones, known as peristaliths. [1] The site was first excavated in 1868.
Gorey Pier is the eastern terminus of the A3 La Rue à Don, which is the main road linking the village to Grouville Church and to St Helier. It was formerly the terminus for the Jersey Eastern Railway. [7] As part of the Eastern Cycle Network plans, Gorey will be connected to St Helier with a direct off-main road cycle route.
St Mary and St Martin being given to Cerisy Abbey. [6]: 21 In 1496, Henry VII bribed the Pope to allow Jersey to be moved from the diocese of Coutances to Westminster. The Reformation arrived in Jersey from France, making Calvinism rather than Anglicanism as the major form of Protestantism in Jersey. Due to Jersey's self-governance and the ...
The Our Lady of the Annunciation Church [1] or more formally "Church of Our Lady of the Annunciation and the Martyrs of Japan" is the name given to a religious building belonging to the Catholic Church and is located in the town of St. Martin on the island of Jersey a British Crown dependency, part of the Channel Islands.
Although Jersey was part of the Roman world, there is a lack of evidence to give a better understanding of the island during the Gallo-Roman and early Middle Ages. The tradition is that the island was called Caesarea by the Romans [1] as laid down in the Antonine Itinerary, however this is disputed by some, who claim Caesarea, Sarnia and Riduna are the Scilly Isles off the southwestern tip of ...