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Bridgetown is the capital and largest city of Barbados. Formerly The Town of Saint Michael, the Greater Bridgetown area is located within the parish of Saint Michael. Bridgetown is sometimes locally referred to as "The City", but the most common reference is simply "Town". As of 2014, its metropolitan population stands at roughly 110,000.
Holetown, is a small city located in the Caribbean island nation of Barbados. Holetown is located in the parish of Saint James on the sheltered west coast of the island.
Harrison's Cave is a tourist attraction in the country of Barbados, first mentioned in 1795. Tourists can access the subterranean environment on a tramway.
Cave Hill, St. Michael is a suburban area situated in the parish of St. Michael. It is located about 4 km north-west of the capital city Bridgetown along the west coast of Barbados.
Cave Hill, St. Lucy is in the Parish of St. Lucy on the island-nation of Barbados. Cave Hill, St. Lucy is a coastal area located on the north-eastern Atlantic Ocean side of the island. The beaches of the Cave Hill, St Lucy area are much rockier and rougher than the west coast, this is due to the turbulence of the Atlantic Ocean's waves.
Freshwater Bay is located between Paynes Bay and Carlisle Bay in Bridgetown, in the southwest of Barbados. Its name comes from the large number of streams that deposit fresh water into the ocean at the location.
Maycock's Bay is located between Six Men's Bay and Harrison Point in St. Lucy, the northwest of Barbados. It is on the west coast of the island to the north. The area has multiple cliffs extending from Bird Rock to Archers Bay and from Stroud Bay to Maycocks Bay.
Six Men's Bay is a fishing village located to the south of Maycock's Bay in the northwest of Barbados, north of the town of Speightstown. Just off shore of the bay, ini 60 ft of water, rests the 165 ft long wreck of a sunken freighter named Pamir, a spot for scuba diving.
Bel Air is a village in Saint Philip Parish in Barbados.
Brereton is a village in Saint Philip Parish in Barbados. The Brereton name started with a John Brereton who traveled to Barbados in 1654.
Six Cross Roads was an old village in the Parish of Saint Philip in Barbados.
The Animal Flower Cave is located under the cliffs at North Point, St. Lucy, Barbados. It is the island's lone accessible sea cave. It was discovered by its seaward entrance in 1780 by two English explorers. The cave stands six feet above the high water mark although it was formed at sea level. This has occurred because Barbados is rising at 1 inch per 1000 years.
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Bridgetown is a diocese of the Latin Rite of the Roman Catholic Church in the Caribbean. The diocese encompasses the entirety of the former British dependency of Barbados. The diocese is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Port of Spain, and a member of the Antilles Episcopal Conference.
The Constitution River or commonly called "The Careenage", is a river located along Carlisle Bay, on the south-western portion of Barbados. The western end of the river runs through the centre of Bridgetown in Saint Michael. The river acts as a channel for heavy rain run-off from the higher interior regions of the island. Additionally, it is a small sheltered shallow passage or yacht harbour for medium-sized yachts or small craft boats to dock in the city. It is located roughly 1 km south of the man-made Deep Water Harbour on the Princess Alice Highway.
Bottom Bay is located on the southeast coast of Barbados, between Cave Bay and Palmetto Bay.
Long Bay is located on the southeast coast of Barbados, between Crane Bay and Cave Bay.
Daguerre Glacier is a glacier on Kiev Peninsula, Graham Land, which joins with Niepce Glacier and flows into Lauzanne Cove, Flandres Bay. It was shown on an Argentine government chart of 1954, and named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee in 1960 for Louis Daguerre, a French painter and physicist who, with J.N. Niepce, invented the daguerreotype process of photography perfected in 1839.
St Nicholas Abbey is located in Saint Peter, Barbados, and is a plantation house, museum and rum distillery. Colonel Benjamin Berringer built the house in 1658. This house is one of only three genuine Jacobean mansions in the Western Hemisphere. It's similar to the English Jacobean-era manor houses of the first half of the seventeenth century, the period between the Tudor and Georgian styles, beginning in the reign of James I.
The West Indies Federal Archives Centre is the official depository of records from the defunct West Indies Federation. The centre was opened in 2004, and is part of the University of the West Indies at Cave Hill in Barbados. Prior to the centre's opening, the West Indies archives were held by the Barbados National Archives.
University of the West Indies at Cave Hill is a public research university in Cave Hill, Barbados. It is one of 5 general campuses in the University of the West Indies system.
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- ↑ "Cave Bay - Barbados Pocket Guide". www.barbadospocketguide.com.
Coordinates: 13°07′N59°25′W / 13.117°N 59.417°W
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