parishes
A parish is a territorial entity in many Christian denominations, constituting a division within a diocese. A parish is under the pastoral care and clerical jurisdiction of a priest, often termed a parish priest, who might be assisted by one or ...
of
Bermuda
Bermuda is a British Overseas Territories, British Overseas Territory in the Atlantic Ocean, North Atlantic Ocean. The closest land outside the territory is in the American state of North Carolina, about to the west-northwest.
Bermuda is an ...
. It is named after
Robert Rich, 2nd Earl of Warwick
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(1587-1658).
It is located in the central south of the island chain, occupying part of the main island to the southeast of the Great Sound, the large expanse of water which dominates the geography of western Bermuda, and also a number of islands which lie within that sound. It is joined to Southampton Parish in the southwest, and to Paget Parish in the northeast. As with most of Bermuda's parishes, it covers just over 2.3 square miles (about 6.0 km2 or 1500
acres
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Long Island
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miles
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(0.5 KM) separating them, making it easy to visit both beautiful spots in one day.
The parish also contains Warwick Camp, the former rifle ranges of the Imperial military garrison, which is, today, the home of the Bermuda Regiment, and most of which doubles as parkland (and the territory of which includes Warwick Long Bay, Horseshoe Bay, and the smaller beaches between).
Christ Church on Middle Road, Warwick is one of the world's oldest
Presbyterian
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churches outside of Europe. It was founded in 1719 and is part of the
Church of Scotland
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Ramsar site
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*** Permanent 8 ha (P)
*** Seasonal Intermittent < 8 ha(Ts)
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PHC Zebras
The Pembroke Hamilton Club Zebras is a Football in Bermuda, Bermudian professional association football, football club based in Hamilton, Bermuda, Hamilton that participates in the Bermudian Premier Division.
They play their home games on PHC F ...
football club returned to PHC Field in 2015 after 17 years. It was named Warwick Stadium when it hosted its first match in the Bermuda Football Union.
Education
Schools in the parish include:
* Warwick Preschool
* Purvis Primary School
* T.N. Tatem Middle SchoolHome T.N. Tatem Middle School. Retrieved on September 14, 2016.
* Warwick Academy (private school)
Notable people
* Francis Landey Patton (1843–1932) Born and schooled in Warwick Parish. Presbyterian minister who went on to become president of what is today Princeton University (1888–1902).
* William Alexander Scott CBE JP (born 1940 in Bermuda) is a politician in Bermuda who is the MP for the Warwick South East constituency. Between 2003 and 2006 he served as the Premier of Bermuda
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Dale Russell
Dale Alan Russell (27 December 1937 – 21 December 2019)
was an American-Canadian geologist and palaeontologist. Throughout his career Russell worked as the Curator of Fossil Vertebrates at the Canadian Museum of Nature, Research Professor at ...
(born 1955 in Warwick Parish) is a U.S. retired soccer forward who played in the North American Soccer League
* Marco Warren (born 1993 in Warwick Parish) is a Bermudian footballer who plays as a midfielder for PHC Zebras