St Saviour (
Guernésiais
Guernésiais, also known as ''Dgèrnésiais'', Guernsey French, and Guernsey Norman French, is the variety of the Norman language spoken in Guernsey. It is sometimes known on the island simply as "patois". As one of the langues d'oïl, it has it ...
: Saint Sauveux; ) is one of the
ten parishes of
Guernsey. It is situated on the west coast of the island, west of the parish of
Castel, east of
St Pierre du Bois, and south of Perelle bay.
People from Saint Sauveux were nicknamed "fouormillaons" in
Guernésiais
Guernésiais, also known as ''Dgèrnésiais'', Guernsey French, and Guernsey Norman French, is the variety of the Norman language spoken in Guernsey. It is sometimes known on the island simply as "patois". As one of the langues d'oïl, it has it ...
, the insular
Norman language of the island. The
postal code
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for street addresses in this parish begins with GY7.
Features
St Saviour is home to the
States of Guernsey reservoir, providing a water supply to the whole island.
The parish contains many protected historic constructions, including the parish church, St Saviour church
[ and outside it, the parish war memorial; the 14th century St Apolline's chapel;][ the Victorian Fort Richmond; the ]artillery batteries
In military organizations, an artillery battery is a unit or multiple systems of artillery, mortar systems, rocket artillery, multiple rocket launchers, surface-to-surface missiles, ballistic missiles, cruise missiles, etc., so grouped to facil ...
of Mont Chinchon and Perelle of Napoleonic Wars
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vintage, numerous German fortifications of World War II
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and several Neolithic
The Neolithic period, or New Stone Age, is an Old World archaeological period and the final division of the Stone Age. It saw the Neolithic Revolution, a wide-ranging set of developments that appear to have arisen independently in several p ...
sites principally at Le Crocq and Le Catioroc (Mont Chinchon).
The once extensive megalith
A megalith is a large stone that has been used to construct a prehistoric structure or monument, either alone or together with other stones. There are over 35,000 in Europe alone, located widely from Sweden to the Mediterranean sea.
The ...
ic site at Le Crocq now consists mainly of two menhir
A menhir (from Brittonic languages: ''maen'' or ''men'', "stone" and ''hir'' or ''hîr'', "long"), standing stone, orthostat, or lith is a large human-made upright stone, typically dating from the European middle Bronze Age. They can be found ...
s, although the hedge boundaries in the area contain many of the stones from the destruction of the monument a couple of hundred years previously. At Le Catioroc again there is a lot less than historically; this area featuring more than any other in the witchcraft trials of the 16th and 17th century and appears to have suffered some deliberate destruction, though Le Trepied Dolmen remains.
World War II fortifications, built during the 1940-45 German occupation of the Channel Islands include the St Saviours Tunnel complex beneath the church[ and parts of the ]Batterie Mirus
The Batterie Mirus is located in Saint Peter and Saint Saviour, Guernsey. Originally called Batterie Nina, it comprised four 30.5 cm guns. The battery was constructed from November 1941 and through the first half of 1942, and was the largest ...
, although there are other PAK (Anti Tank), FLAK (Anti Aircraft), artillery, machine gun installations.
Abreuvoirs - places for cattle to drink - are also found in Saint Saviour.
Politics
Saint Saviour comprises part of the West administrative division
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with Torteval, Forest and St. Pierre-du-Bois
In the 2016 Guernsey general election there was a 3,188 or 74% turnout to elect five Deputies. Those elected (in order of votes received) being ''Al Brouard'', ''Andrea Dudley-Owen'', ''Emilie Yerby'', ''David De Lisle'' and ''Shane Langlois''.
The parish is managed by twelve elected officials known as the Douzane.
Twin towns
Saint Saviour is twinned with:
* Montebourg, Normandy, France
Montebourg - L'église Saint-Jacques.jpg, Montebourg - L'église Saint-Jacques
Montebourg, Jumelage, Saint Saviour, Guernsey.jpg, Saint Saviour Partnership Committee
References
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