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La Hougue Bie is the original Jersey tourist attraction, built six thousand years ago by neolithic man as a ritual site. The Ritual site, a passage grave is still is one of the largest and most well preserved passage graves in North Eastern Europe. This passage grave was also used for rituals other than just burial and can be [...] Elizabeth Castle was built in the 16th century when the power of cannons meant that the existing castle at Mont Orgueil was now unable to defend the Island and the busy port of St. Helier was vulnerable to attack by ships armed with cannon. There was a tidal island called L’Islet in St. Aubin’s Bay [...] St Brelade’s Church is one of the twelve ancient parish churches in Jersey; it is placed upon the south-west corner of St Brelade’s Bay in the parish of St Brelade, which is on the west coast of the Island. This church has one of the very few surviving medieval chapels in the Channel Islands, the [...] On the cliffs of Les Landes which are the most north-westerly part of Jersey there is the ruins of a roughly built castle called Grosnez castle. This Castle was built between AD 1328 and 1330 on the orders of Sir John des Roches. “Grosnez” means ‘big nose’ in modern Jersey/French Patois or “great headland” [...] The Hermitage of St Helier is on Elizabeth Castle and can easily be accessed at low tide by walking or at high tide by using the amphibious ferries that go between Elizabeth castle and the town of St Helier St Helier was the son of Sigobard and his wife Lutsgard who were pagans. Sigobard and Lutsgard lived in [...] The Devil’s Hole is a natural crater in the solid cliff measuring about 100ft across and 200ft deep. The hole is a natural formation probably caused by the sea eroding a cave until the roof of the cave collapsed to form the crater we now see. In 1851 a ship’s figurehead washed up inside the Devil’s [...] |
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