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Saint Saviour, Guernsey

Parish in western Guernsey

Summary

Parish in western Guernsey

Field	Value
name	St. Saviour
native_name_lang
settlement_type	Parish
image_skyline	Image:Le Trépied dolmen Guernsey.jpg
image_caption	Le Catioroc (dolmen) in Saint Saviour
image_flag	Flag of Saint Saviour Parish, Bailiwick of Guernsey.gif
image_map	Parish of Saint Saviour in Guernsey.svg
mapsize	150px
map_caption	Location of St. Saviour in Guernsey
coordinates
subdivision_type	Crown Dependency
subdivision_name	Guernsey, Channel Islands
leader_title	Electoral district
leader_name	West
unit_pref	Metric
area_total_km2	6.2
population_total	2765
population_as_of	2019
population_density_km2	auto
timezone1	GMT
timezone1_DST	UTC+01
website

St Saviour (Guernésiais: 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, the insular Norman language of the island. The postal code 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 of Mont Chinchon and Perelle of Napoleonic Wars vintage, numerous German fortifications of World War II and several Neolithic sites principally at Le Crocq and Le Catioroc (Mont Chinchon).

The once extensive megalithic 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 German occupation of the Channel Islands include the St Saviours Tunnel complex beneath the church 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 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

"St Saviours Reservoir". Visit Guernsey.
Dillon, Paddy. "Channel Island Walks". Cicerone Press Limited, 1999.
"PROTECTED BUILDINGS". Environment - Guernsey government.
"St Saviour's church".
"St Saviour's Parish Memorial, Guernsey". Great War CI.
"Le Crocq, La Longue Pierre". Megalithic Guernsey.
"Le Trépied". BBC.
"Guernsey Abreuvoirs". La Société Guernesiaise.
"St Saviours > Douzaine".

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