Saint Peter, Guernsey

Not to be confused with St. Peter Port.

Saint Peter Saint Pierre du Bois
Parish
Location of Saint Pierre Du Bois in Guernsey
Coordinates:
Crown Dependency	Guernsey, Channel Islands
Government
• Electoral district	West
Area
• Total	6.2 km2 (2.4 sq mi)
Population
• Total	2,188
• Density	350/km2 (910/sq mi)
Time zone	GMT
• Summer (DST)	UTC+01 (UTC)

St Peter's (Guernesiais: Saint Pierre), known officially as Saint Pierre du Bois (English: "St. Peter in the Wood") is a parish in Guernsey. It is the centre for the Guernsey Western Parishes which includes Torteval, St Saviour's and the Forest.

The old Guernesiais nickname for people from Saint Pierre was etcherbaots which means beetles.

The postal code for street addresses in this parish begins with GY7.

St Peter's won the Britain in Bloom small coastal prize in 2015.

Geography

The parish is located in the West of the Island and has borders with the parishes of Torteval, St. Saviour's, Forest and St. Andrew's.

The parish is mainly countryside with a small village in the centre. The parish church is one of the most unusual in the islands as it is built at the bottom of a small valley and the interior of the church is not flat but diagonal in appearance.

Features

The features of the parish include:

• St Peter's church
• St Peter's village
• Lihou
• Military:
  • Parish war memorial outside parish church
  • Fort Grey Château du Rocquaine
  • Fort Saumarez
  • L'Eree Battery
  • Mont Herault watchhouse
  • German fortifications, built during the occupation 1940-45
• A number of protected buildings
• Le Creux es Faies neolithic passage grave can be found on the L'Eree headland. In local folk lore it is said to be one of the entrances to fairy land.
• Beaches
  • Rocquaine Bay
  • Le Crocq du Sud
  • L'Erée
• Lihou
• Nature reserves
  • Silbe nature reserve
  • Colin Best nature reserve
  • La Claire Mare nature reserve
  • Lihou Island nature reserve
• Abreuvoirs (places for cattle to drink)

The parish of the Vale hosts:

• St Peter's Douzaine
• Styx community centre
• Countryside walks

Fort Grey

Politics

Saint Peter comprises part of the West administrative division with Torteval, St. Saviour's and Forest

In the Guernsey general election, 2012 there was a 3,148 or 76% turnout to elect six Deputies.

Notable people

• Sampson Avard, the leader of a band of Mormon vigilantes called the Danites, which existed in Missouri during the period of the 1838 Mormon War.

External links

• Parish Website
• "This is Guernsey" Website