St Saviour (
Guernésiais
Guernésiais (), also known as Guerneseyese, ''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 ...
: Saint Sauveux; ) is one of the
ten parishes of
Guernsey
Guernsey ( ; Guernésiais: ''Guernési''; ) is the second-largest island in the Channel Islands, located west of the Cotentin Peninsula, Normandy. It is the largest island in the Bailiwick of Guernsey, which includes five other inhabited isl ...
. 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 Guerneseyese, ''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 ...
, the insular
Norman language
Norman or Norman French (, , Guernésiais: , Jèrriais: ) is a ''Langues d'oïl, langue d'oïl'' spoken in the historical region, historical and Cultural area, cultural region of Normandy.
The name "Norman French" is sometimes also used to des ...
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
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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 ]Fort Richmond
Fort Richmond is a provincial electoral division in the southern suburban part of Winnipeg in the Canadian province of Manitoba. It was formed by redistribution in 2008 out of parts of the electoral divisions of St. Norbert and Fort Garry.
...
; the artillery batteries
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of Mont Chinchon and Perelle of Napoleonic Wars
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, partof = the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars
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vintage, numerous German fortifications of World War II
World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a World war, global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies of World War II, Allies and the Axis powers. World War II by country, Nearly all of the wo ...
and several Neolithic
The Neolithic or New Stone Age (from Ancient Greek, Greek 'new' and 'stone') is an archaeological period, the final division of the Stone Age in Mesopotamia, Asia, Europe and Africa (c. 10,000 BCE to c. 2,000 BCE). It saw the Neolithic Revo ...
sites principally at Le Crocq and Le Catioroc (Mont Chinchon).
The once extensive megalith
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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 upright stone, emplaced in the ground by humans, typically dating from the European middle Br ...
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
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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, Guernsey, Saint Peter and Saint Saviour, Guernsey. Originally called Batterie Nina, it comprised four 30.5 cm SK L/50 gun, 30.5 cm guns. The battery was constructed from November 1941 and through ...
, 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
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
Followin ...
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
Montebourg () is a commune in the Manche department in Normandy in north-western France.
Geography
Montebourg is located southeast of Cherbourg.
Population
Heraldry
International relations
Montebourg is twinned with:
* Walheim,*, Germ ...
, 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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