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Saint Martin, Jersey

Saint Martin (Jèrriais

Jèrriais

Parish

A parish is a local church; it is an administrative unit typically found in Roman Catholic, Anglican, United Methodist, and Presbyterianism churches....
es of Jersey

Jersey

The Bailiwick of Jersey is a British Crown dependency off the coast of Normandy, France. As well as the island of Jersey itself, the bailiwick includes the nearly uninhabited islands of the Minquiers, ?cr?hous, the Pierres de Lecq and other rocks and reefs....
in the Channel Islands

Channel Islands

The Channel Islands are a group of islands in the English Channel, off the France coast of Normandy. They include two separate bailiwicks: the Bailiwick of Guernsey and the Bailiwick of Jersey....
. Historically it was called "Saint Martin le Vieux" to distinguish it from the present day parish of Grouville

Grouville

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Saint Martin (Jèrriais

Jèrriais

Parish

A parish is a local church; it is an administrative unit typically found in Roman Catholic, Anglican, United Methodist, and Presbyterianism churches....
es of Jersey

Jersey

Channel Islands

Grouville

Grouville is one of the twelve parishes of Jersey in the Channel Islands. The parish is in the south east of the island and is dominated by the broad sweep of the Royal Bay of Grouville....
(historically "Saint Martin de Grouville").

St. Martin is the only parish in Jersey not to conduct its municipal business from a Parish Hall. St. Martin has a Public Hall instead, having accepted money from the States of Jersey to provide an assembly room.

The dolmen

Dolmen

File:paulnabrone.jpgFile:KilclooneyDolmen1986.jpgA dolmen is a type of single-chamber megalithic tomb, usually consisting of three or more megalith supporting a large flat horizontal capstone ....
s at Le Couperon and Faldouet are among the prehistoric remains in the parish. La Pouquelaye de Faldouet features on the reverse of the Jersey ten pence coin (see coins of the Jersey pound) and was the inspiration for the poem Nomen, numen, lumen written by Victor Hugo

Victor Hugo

Victor-Marie Hugo was a France poet, playwright, novelist, essayist, visual artist, statesman, human rights activist and exponent of the Romanticism movement in France....
in 1855 during his exile in Jersey.

The rock known as Le Saut Geffroy, or Geoffroy's Leap, is reputed to be an ancient place of execution where criminals were thrown into the sea. According to folklore

Folklore

Folklore is the body of expressive culture, including tales, music, dance, legends, oral history, proverbs, jokes, superstitions, customs, and so forth within a particular population comprising the traditions of that culture, subculture, or group ....
, a man named Geffroy was condemned to be thrown into the sea. Remarkably, he survived and climbed back up the cliff face where an argument broke out among the mob of spectators. Some said that sentence had been duly carried out and that Geffroy should go free; others said that sentence had not been properly carried out. To settle the argument, and demonstrate his prowess, Geffroy dived off the rock, but perished on this occasion. Le Saut Geffroy is now preserved by the National Trust for Jersey

National Trust for Jersey

The National Trust for Jersey is an association which aims at preserving and safeguarding sites of historic, aesthetic and natural interest in Jersey....
.

The ancient castle

Castle

A castle is a defensive structure seen as one of the main symbols of the Middle Ages. The term has a history of scholarly debate surrounding its exact meaning, but it is usually regarded as being distinct from the general terms fort or fortress in that it describes a residence of a monarch or noble and commands a specific defensive territor...
of Mont Orgueil

Mont Orgueil

Mont Orgueil is a castle in Jersey. It is located overlooking the harbour of Gorey, Jersey. It is also called Gorey Castle by English language-speakers, and l? Vi?r Ch?t? by J?rriais-speakers....
dominates the small harbour and village of Gorey

Gorey, Jersey

Gorey is a village in the Parishes of Jersey of Saint Martin, Jersey and Grouville on the east coast of Jersey. It is one of the three main harbours of the island....
. The castle served as the island's prison until a prison was constructed in St. Helier in the 17th century. Among agitators imprisoned there by the British government were William Prynne

William Prynne

William Prynne was a seventeenth-century England author, polemicist, and political figure. He was a prominent Puritan opponent of the church policy of the Archbishop of Canterbury, William Laud....
and John Lilburne

John Lilburne

John Lilburne , also known as Freeborn John, was an agitator in England before, during and after the English Civil Wars of 1642–1650....
. Until the construction of Elizabeth Castle

Elizabeth Castle

Elizabeth Castle is a castle in Saint Helier, Jersey. Construction was started in the 16th century when the power of cannons meant that the existing stronghold at Mont Orgueil was insufficient to defend the Island and the port of St....
off Saint Helier

Saint Helier

Saint Helier is one of the twelve Parishes of Jersey of Jersey, the largest of the Channel Islands in the English Channel. St. Helier has a population of about 28,000, roughly 31.2% of the total population of Jersey, and is the Capital of the Island ....
at the beginning of the 17th century, Mont Orgueil was generally the residence of the Governor of Jersey.

The immense breakwater at St. Catherine is all that remains of a grandiose harbour project started, but then abandoned, by the British government in the 19th century. It is now a popular site for sea anglers.

St. Martin is one of the remaining strongholds of Jèrriais

Jèrriais

J?rriais is the form of the Norman language spoken in Jersey, in the Channel Islands, off the coast of France. It has been in decline over the past century as English language has increasingly become the language of education, commerce and administration....
with a distinctive accent. The area around Faldouet formerly possessed a dialect of its own, known as Faldouais, of which the distinctive feature was the realisation of intervocalic /r/ as /z/. Although the Faldouais dialect is extinct, it has left notable amounts of writings in Jèrriais literature

Jèrriais literature

J?rriais literature is literature in J?rriais, the Norman language dialect of Jersey in the Channel Islands.The literary tradition in Jersey is traced back to Wace, the 12th century Jersey-born poet, although there is little surviving literature in J?rriais dating to before the introduction of the first printing press in Jersey in the 178...
.

The artist Edmund Blampied

Edmund Blampied

Edmund Blampied was one of the most eminent artists to come from the Channel Islands, yet he received no formal training in art until he was 16 years old....
was born at Ville Brée on 30th March 1886.

Subdivisions

St. Martin is divided into vingtaine

Vingtaine

A vingtaine is a political subdivision of Jersey. They are subdivisions of the various parishes of Jersey, and one, La Vingtaine de la Ville , in Saint Helier is further divided into two cantons....
s as follows:

La Vingtaine de Rozel
La Vingtaine de Faldouet
La Vingtaine de la Quéruée
La Vingtaine de l'Église
La Vingtaine du Fief de la Reine

The Écréhous

Écréhous

The ?cr?hous are a groups of islands and rocks situated six miles north-east of Jersey . They form part of the Bailiwick of Jersey and are administratively part of the Parish of Saint Martin, Jersey....
are part of the parish of St. Martin.

Saint Martin forms one electoral district and elects one Deputy.

Demographics

style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 1.1em; margin-bottom: 0.5em"| Population
1991	1996	2001
3528	3423	3628
Statistics beginning 1991

Saint Martin, Jersey

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