Portal:Channel Islands
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Hello, and welcome to the Channel Islands portal, with information relating to the 8 inhabited, and 11 uninhabited islands. The Channel Islands (in Norman they are the Îles d'la Manche, and in French the Îles Anglo-Normandes or Îles de la Manche) are an archipelago of British Crown Dependencies in the English Channel, off the French coast of Normandy. They include two separate bailiwicks: the Bailiwick of Guernsey and the Bailiwick of Jersey. They are considered the remnants of the Duchy of Normandy, and are not part of the United Kingdom. They have a total population of about 168,000 and their respective capitals, Saint Peter Port and Saint Helier, have populations of 16,488 and 33,500 respectively. The total area of the islands is 194 km2. |
Herm (Guernésiais: Haerme) is the smallest of the Channel Islands that is open to the public and is part of the Bailiwick of Guernsey. It is one and a half miles long, and under half a mile wide; orientated North-South. Cars are banned from the island, as are bicycles; but, quad bikes and tractors used for staff and luggage transport respectively are allowed.
Herm was first discovered in the Mesolithic period, and the first settlers arrived in the Neolithic and Bronze Ages. Many tombs from that period remain today, the majority in the north of the island. The island was annexed to the Duchy of Normandy in 933, but returned to the Crown with the division of Normandy in 1204. It was occupied by Germany in the Second World War, but was largely bypassed. Herm is currently managed by Herm Island Ltd, formed by Starboard Settlement, who acquired Herm in 2008, following fears that the island's identity was at threat.
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Sir Thomas Angus Lyall Paton (10 May 1905–7 April 1999) was a British civil engineer from Jersey. He was commonly known by his second name, Angus. Paton was born into a family that had founded the civil engineering firms of Easton, Gibb & Son and Sir Alexander Gibb & Partners and he would spend his entire professional career working for the latter. Following his graduation from University College London one of his first jobs was the construction of a dam in Maentwrog in Wales (pictured). Paton later became an expert on dams and much of his career was devoted to their construction. (Full article...)
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Castle Cornet is in St. Peter's Port on Guernsey, and was built between 1206 and 1256, developed from a tidal island (like Lihou). A cannon fires every day at midday.
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- ... that the Little Chapel (pictured) is believed to be the world's smallest consecrated church?
- ... that a huge hoard of Iron Age and Roman coins was found in Jersey in June 2012 after two metal detectorists spent a few hours a year for 30 years searching for a suspected hoard?
- ... that actress Mary Lawson married F. W. L. C. Beaumont, son of the Dame of Sark, and they died together in 1941 during the Liverpool Blitz?
- ... that the railway in Alderney is the only working railway in the Channel Islands, and draws a number of visitors to the island every year?
- ...that Höhlgangsanlage 8, built in Jersey during World War II under the occupation of the Channel Islands by German forces, was a partially completed underground hospital complex with over 1 km of tunnels?
- ... that one pair of tickets for Children in Need Rocks Manchester was auctioned by BBC Radio Jersey for £2010?
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Islands: Alderney • Brecqhou • Burhou • Casquets • Écréhous • Grande-Île • Guernsey • Herm • Jersey • Jethou • Les Dirouilles • Les Pierres de Lecq • Lihou • Minquiers • Sark • History of the islands History of Guernsey • History of Jersey |
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Alderney, 
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