Mavis Bank is a rural
coffee
Coffee is a drink prepared from roasted coffee beans. Darkly colored, bitter, and slightly acidic, coffee has a stimulating effect on humans, primarily due to its caffeine content. It is the most popular hot drink in the world.
Seeds of ...
farming community approximately north east of
Kingston, Jamaica
Kingston is the capital and largest city of Jamaica, located on the southeastern coast of the island. It faces a natural harbour protected by the Palisadoes, a long sand spit which connects the town of Port Royal and the Norman Manley Inte ...
in east rural
St. Andrew in the
Blue Mountains, close to the border of
Portland.
[UK Directorate of Overseas Surveys 1:50,000 map of Jamaica sheet L, 1967.]
The town takes its name from a surrounding coffee (named after
Mavisbank House
Mavisbank is a country house outside Loanhead, south of Edinburgh in Midlothian, Scotland. It was designed by architect William Adam in collaboration with his client, Sir John Clerk of Penicuik, and was constructed between 1723 and 1727. The fir ...
an historic house in
Scotland
Scotland (, ) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Covering the northern third of the island of Great Britain, mainland Scotland has a border with England to the southeast and is otherwise surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean to ...
) which has been owned by the Munn family for many years, and is the main employer in the area.
One of the coffees produced by the estate is
Jamaican Blue Mountain Coffee.
Close to the west south west is a summit of the same name on which stands a tertiary
triangulation station
A triangulation station, also known as a trigonometrical point, and sometimes informally as a trig, is a fixed surveying station, used in geodetic surveying and other surveying projects in its vicinity. The nomenclature varies regionally: they a ...
().
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Aerial viewPhotos (Flickr)
{{Settlements in Jamaica
Populated places in Saint Andrew Parish, Jamaica