St Mary, Jersey
Template:Infobox Channel Island parish
Saint Mary (Jèrriais: Sainte Mathie) is one of the twelve parishes of Jersey in the Channel Islands. It is in the north west. It covers a surface area of 3,604 vergées (6.5 km²).
It borders four other parishes. Among the natural attractions of the parish is the feature known as the Devil's Hole (Lé Creux du Vis}, a crater in the cliffs of the coast to which the sea has access. The descent into the Devil's Hole used to be accessible to visitors and was a lucrative tourist attraction, but it has been closed off for decades. Following a shipwreck in 1851, when the ship's figurehead washed up in the Devil's Hole, a statue of a devil adapted from the figurehead was set up above the Hole. This wooden statue was replaced by a succession of modern versions in the 20th century.
Vingtaines
The parish is divided into vingtaines for administrative purposes as follows:
The parish forms one electoral district and elects one Deputy.
Demographics
St. Mary has the smallest population of all the parishes in Jersey, having only 1,591 residents in 2001.
| 1991 | 1996 | 2001 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1449 | 1475 | 1591 | |||
| Statistics beginning 1991 | |||||
Trivia
Devil's Hole[1] is referenced in a lyric in the song Achilles Last Stand by rock band Led Zeppelin, who lived on the island for a period during 1975.
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