St Saviour ( Guernésiais: Saint Sauveux; ) is one of the ten parishes of

Guernsey Guernsey (; Guernésiais: ''Guernési''; french: Guernesey) is an island in the English Channel off the coast of Normandy that is part of the Bailiwick of Guernsey, a British Crown Dependency. It is the second largest of the Channel Islands ...

. 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, the insular

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of the island. The

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for street addresses in this parish begins with GY7.

Features

St Saviour is home to the

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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

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; the artillery batteries of Mont Chinchon and Perelle of

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vintage, numerous German fortifications of

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and several

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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 menhirs, 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

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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

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with Torteval, Forest and St. Pierre-du-Bois In the

2016 Guernsey general election The 2016 Guernsey general election was held on 27 April 2016 to elect 38 members of the States of Guernsey who will serve until 2020. There was a by-election in October 2016 to fill a vacancy in the district of Vale. Electoral system Follow ...

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: *

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, 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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