Arnos Vale, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

Arnos Vale
Arnos Vale
	Arnos Vale Location in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
	Coordinates: 13°08′33″N061°12′34″W / 13.14250°N 61.20944°W Coordinates: 13°08′33″N061°12′34″W / 13.14250°N 61.20944°W [1]
Country	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Island	Saint Vincent
Parish	Saint George

Last updated July 11, 2019

Arnos Vale is a town and former agricultural estate in southern Saint Vincent, in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines. It is centred 5 kilometres (3.1 miles) southeast of the capital, Kingstown. The country's former main airport, E. T. Joshua Airport occupied part of the area. The area is mainly green and has a coastline to the south. As to the traditional parishes of the island, determining the local forerunner church and present local body, it lies in the parish of Saint George, which contains the capital and about half of the island's population. It is one of five parishes on the main island.

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines is an Anglo-Caribbean country in the British West Indies region of the Lesser Antilles island arc, in the southern portion of the Windward Islands, which lies in the West Indies at the southern end of the eastern border of the Caribbean Sea where the latter meets the Atlantic Ocean. The sovereign state is also frequently known simply as Saint Vincent.

E.T. Joshua Airport~~(ICAO: TVSV)~~, formerly known as Arnos Vale Airport, is a decommissioned airport located in Arnos Vale, near Kingstown, on Saint Vincent island. The airport was named for Ebenezer Theodore Joshua, the first chief minister of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines. The Airport was a hub for Grenadine Airways, Mustique Airways and S.V.G. Air.

Saint George is an administrative parish of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, situated in the most southerly portion of the island of Saint Vincent. With an area of 52 km² it is the country's third largest parish by total area. According to the 2000 census it has a population of approximately 52,400 making it the most populous parish in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines and by extent, the most densely populated as well. Its population accounts for 44% of that of the country and its area, only 13%.

The town hosts a 18,000-seat cricket and football stadium at the Arnos Vale Sports Complex.

The Arnos Vale Stadium is a cricket ground in Arnos Vale, near Kingstown, St. Vincent. The multi-use ground – part of Arnos Vale Sports Complex – is situated next to and to the west of the Arnos Vale Playing Field.

Relocation of airport to Argyle has led government to indicate willingness to transform the town into a small city.

Argyle International Airport is a newly constructed international airport in St. Vincent and the Grenadines, about 5.17 miles (8.32 km) from Kingstown. The airport is one of St. Vincent and the Grenadines most important infrastructure assets and the country's first international airport. This airport connects St. Vincent and the Grenadines to airports like Miami International Airport, John F Kennedy International Airport, Toronto Pearson International Airport and others in the Caribbean. It is the largest of five airports in the multi-island nation of St. Vincent and the Grenadines and the largest international gateway into the country, the others being J. F. Mitchell Airport in Bequia, Canouan Airport, Mustique Airport and Union Island Airport all in the Grenadines. Argyle International Airport serves as a major gateway to the Grenadines, with several airlines operating an extensive network of direct domestic flights from AIA to all destinations in the Grenadines. The airport is the second solar powered airport in the Caribbean, following V. C. Bird International Airport in Antigua.

History

During the mid-nineteenth century, following the fall-out of the abolition of slavery in St Vincent and the reduction in value and investment in estates, the British parliament passed a series of Acts – the West Indian Incumbered Estates Acts – to provide clear title to estates and to enable their comprehensive re-planning if the new owners, whether local or abroad, so desired without fear of hindrance from objections from either side of the Atlantic, such as adjoining owners or those with interests in historic trusts. The then-454-acre (184 ha) estate was sold on 1 November 1858, four years after the first such Act and was the first estate to be subjected to the clear title mechanism which the series of Acts created.

The West Indian Incumbered Estates Acts were Acts of the Parliament of the United Kingdom of 1854, 1858, 1862, 1864, 1872, and 1886 that allowed creditors and other interested parties to apply for the sale of estates (plantations) in the British colonies in the West Indies despite legal encumbrances that would normally prevent such a sale. The legislation was modelled on the acts that created the Irish Encumbered Estates' Court after the Great Famine of the 1840s that allowed indebted and moribund estates to be sold.

The buyer was Rev. F. R. Braithwaite of Saint Vincent for £10,050, a sum that Reginald Cust, commissioner and historian of the legislation, noted was much higher than expected.^[2]

Sir Reginald John Cust (1828–1913) was a barrister of Lincoln's Inn, judge, and Chief Commissioner of the West India Incumbered Estates Commission. He was knighted in the 1890 Birthday Honours.

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References

↑ "Arnos Vale". Wikimapia. Retrieved 2 March 2013.
↑ Cust, 1865, p. 218.

Scott, C. R. (ed.) (2005) Insight guide: Caribbean (5th edition). London: Apa Publications.

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[1] "Arnos Vale". Wikimapia. Retrieved 2 March 2013.

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Arnos Vale
Arnos Vale Location in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Coordinates: 13°08′33″N061°12′34″W / 13.14250°N 61.20944°W / 13.14250; -61.20944 Coordinates: 13°08′33″N061°12′34″W / 13.14250°N 61.20944°W / 13.14250; -61.20944 ^[1]
Country	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Island	Saint Vincent
Parish	Saint George