St. Peter Port Saint-Pierre-Port | |
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Coordinates: 49°27′20″N2°32′12″W / 49.4555°N 2.5368°W | |
Crown Dependency | Bailiwick of Guernsey |
Government | |
• Electoral district | Divided into St Peter Port North and St Peter Port South |
Area | |
• Total | 6.5 km2 (2.5 sq mi) |
Elevation | 0 m (0 ft) |
Population (2019) | |
• Total | 18,958 |
• Density | 2,900/km2 (7,600/sq mi) |
Time zone | GMT |
• Summer (DST) | UTC+01 |
Postal code | GY1 |
Website | www |
St. Peter Port (French : Saint-Pierre Port) is a town and one of the ten parishes on the island of Guernsey in the Channel Islands. It is the capital of the Bailiwick of Guernsey as well as the main port. The population in 2019 was 18,958.
St. Peter Port is a small town (commonly referred to by locals as just "town") [1] consisting mostly of steep narrow streets and steps on the overlooking slopes. It is known that a trading post/town existed here before Roman times with a pre-Christian name which has not survived.
The parish covers an area of 6.5 km2. The postal code for addresses in the parish starts with GY1.
People from St. Peter Port were nicknamed "les Villais" (the townspeople) or "cllichards" in Guernésiais.
St. Peter Port is on the east coast of Guernsey overlooking Herm and tiny Jethou, a further channel separates Sark and surrounding islets such as Brecqhou; exceptionally Normandy's long Cotentin Peninsula and, to the south-east, Jersey are visible in clear conditions beyond from some, highest, vantage points. The parish borders St. Sampson in the north, The Vale in the north-west, St. Andrew in the west and St. Martin in the south.
The name of the nearest channel is the Little Russel, in which sits the Bréhon Tower; that separating Sark is the Big Russel. Both in width are less than half of Guernsey's greatest length and dotted with coastal rocks and stacks quite near those islands, some of which are narrowly submerged.
The land in the north and by the harbour is low-lying but not marshy. In the south, the land gets higher (but not as high as St Martin's or the Forest). Grassy, gently terraced cliffs behind sea walls (including projections) topped by trees characterise the southern part of the coast here (by an underground military museum and historic battery at semi-wooded Havelet). In the north is the more built-up Admiral Park development. To the south of the town lies Havelet Bay and the coastal path which leads to the very pretty Fermain Bay after a walk of about 20–25 minutes.
St. Peter Port has an oceanic climate (Cfb) with mild summers and cool winters.
Climate data for St. Peter Port (2010-2020 normals, extremes 1947–present) | |||||||||||||
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Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
Record high °C (°F) | 13.3 (55.9) | 15.0 (59.0) | 19.4 (66.9) | 24.3 (75.7) | 25.9 (78.6) | 30.8 (87.4) | 32.6 (90.7) | 34.3 (93.7) | 30.6 (87.1) | 23.6 (74.5) | 18.0 (64.4) | 15.6 (60.1) | 34.3 (93.7) |
Average high °C (°F) | 8.7 (47.7) | 8.4 (47.1) | 10.0 (50.0) | 12.6 (54.7) | 14.8 (58.6) | 17.6 (63.7) | 20.0 (68.0) | 19.5 (67.1) | 18.3 (64.9) | 15.4 (59.7) | 11.9 (53.4) | 10.1 (50.2) | 13.9 (57.0) |
Daily mean °C (°F) | 7.4 (45.3) | 6.7 (44.1) | 7.9 (46.2) | 9.9 (49.8) | 12.1 (53.8) | 14.7 (58.5) | 17.0 (62.6) | 16.9 (62.4) | 15.8 (60.4) | 13.5 (56.3) | 10.4 (50.7) | 8.7 (47.7) | 11.8 (53.2) |
Average low °C (°F) | 5.9 (42.6) | 5.2 (41.4) | 5.8 (42.4) | 7.2 (45.0) | 9.4 (48.9) | 11.9 (53.4) | 14.0 (57.2) | 14.3 (57.7) | 13.3 (55.9) | 11.6 (52.9) | 8.9 (48.0) | 7.4 (45.3) | 9.6 (49.3) |
Record low °C (°F) | −7.8 (18.0) | −7.2 (19.0) | −2.2 (28.0) | −1.4 (29.5) | 0.1 (32.2) | 5.4 (41.7) | 8.3 (46.9) | 9.2 (48.6) | 5.8 (42.4) | 3.5 (38.3) | −0.8 (30.6) | −3.8 (25.2) | −7.8 (18.0) |
Average precipitation mm (inches) | 90.7 (3.57) | 73.1 (2.88) | 50.5 (1.99) | 38.9 (1.53) | 43.6 (1.72) | 37.8 (1.49) | 33.3 (1.31) | 53.6 (2.11) | 52.3 (2.06) | 82.5 (3.25) | 97.8 (3.85) | 99.5 (3.92) | 753.6 (29.67) |
Average precipitation days (≥ 0.2 mm) | 20.8 | 18.1 | 14.2 | 10.2 | 10.8 | 11.4 | 10.4 | 13.9 | 12.8 | 17.2 | 20.7 | 20.3 | 180.9 |
Average snowy days | 1.0 | 1.0 | 1.0 | 0.6 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1.0 | 4.6 |
Mean monthly sunshine hours | 61.0 | 85.6 | 127.6 | 194.7 | 234.5 | 246.6 | 250.7 | 230.1 | 180.1 | 117.1 | 77.8 | 58.2 | 1,864 |
Percent possible sunshine | 22.7 | 29.1 | 34.7 | 47.7 | 49.6 | 51.2 | 51.7 | 52.0 | 47.8 | 35.3 | 28.7 | 22.8 | 41.8 |
Source 1: Guernsey Met Office 2018 Weather Report [2] | |||||||||||||
Source 2: Weather-online.co.uk [3] |
Saint Peter Port is subdivided into four cantons: [4]
In addition, the islands of Herm and Jethou belong to the parish, [5] but are not part of any canton. They belong to Electoral district Saint Peter Port South. [6]
St. Peter Port has an English Isthmian League club, Guernsey F.C. who play at Footes Lane. The Guernsey Rugby Football Club also play at Footes Lane and compete in National League 3 London & SE.
Candie Gardens, an award-winning restored Victorian Garden, features statues of Victor Hugo and Queen Victoria. The Guernsey Museum at Candie and the Priaulx Library are both situated within the grounds of the garden respectively.
Cambridge Park is a recreational park that includes Churchill Avenue, ‘a leafy tree-lined pedestrian Avenue’, named after Winston Churchill and a skate park. [7] In 2014 the parish was a Gold & Category Winner in the RHS Britain in Bloom competition, [8] followed in 2016 with another Gold medal. [9]
The features of the town include:
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The following main roads (listed from north-south) provide important links between St Peter Port and the other parishes:
The following coastal roads (listed from north to south) are also very important as they provide access to the shops, carparks and the harbour:
Saint Peter Port comprises two administrative division, St Peter Port South and St Peter Port North.
In the 2016 Guernsey general election in:
Guernsey bank notes feature a number of parish buildings:
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