Saint Sampson
St Sampson is a parish of Guernsey, an island in the Bailiwick of Guernsey, directly north of St Peter Port. It is on the north-west and north-east coasts of the island and is split into two sections, intersected by Vale.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Village with 8,970 residents
- Description: parish in Guernsey
- Also known as: “Saint Sampson Parish”, “Saint Sampson, Guernsey”, “Saint Sampson’s”, “Saint Samsaon”, “Saint-Sampson”, “St-Sampson”, and “St. Sampson”
Places of Interest
Highlights include St. Sampson Church and Vale Castle.
Vale Castle
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Vale Castle, is a protected building located in the Vale, Guernsey. The original name was "Le Château St Michel", later it became "Château de Val" or "Château de Valle" and is over 1,000 years old.
Bordeaux Harbour
Beach
for other uses, see Port of Bordeaux Bordeaux Harbour is a fishing port and bay in the parish of Vale in the northeast of Guernsey, about 2 miles north of Saint Peter Port.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include St Peter Port and Herm Harbour.
St Peter Port
Town
Photo: Alistair Young, CC BY 2.0.
The Bailiwick of Guernsey is a group of islands in the English Channel, part of the Channel Islands. Guernsey is the main island, some 50 miles west of the Cotentin Peninsula in France. St Peter Port is situated 3½ km southwest of Saint Sampson.
Herm Harbour
Locality
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Herm Harbour is a locality, which is situated 5 km east of Saint Sampson.
St Andrew
Hamlet
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Saint Andrew is located in the centre of Guernsey and as such is the only parish on the island to be landlocked. As it is customary to list the parishes round the coast, either clockwise or anti-clockwise, starting with St Peter Port, St Andrew is usually the last parish to be mentioned in such a list. St Andrew is situated 5 km southwest of Saint Sampson.
Saint Sampson
- Categories: parish of Guernsey, human settlement, and locality
- Location: St Sampson, Guernsey, Channel Islands, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
49.48336° or 49° 29′ 0″ northLongitude
-2.51971° or 2° 31′ 11″ westPopulation
8,970Elevation
3 metres (10 feet)United Nations Location Code
GG STSOpen location code
8CXVFFMJ+84OpenStreetMap ID
node 12625687689OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Urdu—“Saint Sampson” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Saint Sampson”
- Breton: “Saint Samsaon”
- Cebuano: “Saint Sampson (parokya)”
- Cebuano: “Saint Sampson”
- Chinese: “聖桑普森”
- Cornish: “Saint Sampson’s, Gernsi”
- Cornish: “Saint Sampson’s”
- Dutch: “Saint Sampson”
- French: “Saint-Samson”
- French: “St Samson”
- Interlingue: “Saint Sampson”
- Japanese: “セント・サンプソン (ガーンジー)”
- Lithuanian: “Šv. Samsono parapija”
- Narom: “Saint Samsaon”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Saint Sampson”
- Norwegian: “Saint Sampson”
- Polish: “St Sampson’s”
- Portuguese: “Saint Sampson”
- Russian: “Сент-Сампсон”
- Spanish: “Saint Sampson”
- Spanish: “Sant Sampson (Guernsey)”
- Swedish: “Saint Sampson (parish)”
- Swedish: “Saint Sampson, Guernsey”
- Urdu: “سینٹ سمپسوں ، گرنزی”
- “Saint Sampson”
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