A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
JOHN (ST.), a parish in Jersey; on the N coast, 5 miles NNW of St. Helier. Post town, Jersey. Acres, 2, 154. Pop. in 1851, 2, 021; in 1861, 1,815. Houses, 297. Bonne-Nuit harbour, about a mile ENE of the church, opens from a beautiful small glen, and gives shelter to a few fishing boats. Mount Mado quarries, W of the harbour, have long been extensively worked, and furnish an excellent granitic stone for harbour piers and for building. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Winchester. Value, £120.* Patron, the Governor of the Channel Islands. The church presents no feature of intereST.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a parish" (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions") |
| Administrative units: | Jersey CrProt |
| Place names: | JOHN ST | ST JOHN |
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