Arnos Vale is a former agricultural estate and now a settlement in Greathead Bay, formerly Warrawarrou Bay, in southern Saint Vincent, in

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Saint Vincent and the Grenadines () is an island country in the Caribbean. It is located in the southeast Windward Islands of the Lesser Antilles, which lie in the West Indies at the southern end of the eastern border of the Caribbean Sea wh ...

. It is centred southeast of the capital,

Kingstown Kingstown is the capital, chief port, and main commercial centre of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines. With a population of 12,909 (2012), Kingstown is the most populous settlement in the country. It is the island's agricultural industry centre ...

. The country's former main airport,

E. T. Joshua Airport E.T. Joshua Airport , formerly known as Arnos Vale Airport, was an airport located in Arnos Vale, near Kingstown, on the island of Saint Vincent. The airport was named for Ebenezer Theodore Joshua, the first chief minister of Saint Vincent an ...

occupied part of the area, and used to be called Arnos Vale Airport. 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 Saint George (Greek: Γεώργιος (Geórgios), Latin: Georgius, Arabic: القديس جرجس; died 23 April 303), also George of Lydda, was a Christian who is venerated as a saint in Christianity. According to tradition he was a soldier ...

, which contains the capital and about half of the island's population. It is one of five parishes on the main island. The town hosts a 18,000-seat cricket and football stadium at the Arnos Vale Sports Complex. Relocation of airport to Argyle has led government to indicate willingness to transform the former airport into a residential area.

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 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 c ...

– 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 Arnos Vale Estate - then - 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 buyer was F. R. Braithwaite of St Kitts for £10,050, a sum that

Reginald Cust Sir Reginald John Cust (1828 – 11 June 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. Origins He was a son of Rev. Hon. Henry ...

, commissioner and historian of the legislation, noted was much higher than expected.Cust, 1865, p. 218.
/ref> The Estate, including Arnos Vale Great House was then bought in 1893 from Rev. Braithwaite by George Richard Correia (later Corea), son of Joachim Correia one of the first Portuguese indentured labourers who came from Madeira to St Vincent in the 1840s.

References

{{Reflist *Scott, C. R. (ed.) (2005) ''Insight guide: Caribbean (5th edition)''. London: Apa Publications. Populated places in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines