Torteval
Torteval is the smallest of the ten parishes of Guernsey, one of the western parishes. Its name comes from the Guernésiais words for "twisting valley".Photo: Unukorno, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: human settlement with 1,020 residents
- Description: parish of Guernsey
- Also known as: “Torteval, Guernsey”, “Tortevas”, and “Tortévas”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Guernsey Airport and Lihou Island.
Guernsey Airport
Aerodrome
Photo: Wdollivier, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Guernsey Airport is an international airport on the island of Guernsey and the largest airport in the Bailiwick of Guernsey. It is located in the Forest, a parish in Guernsey, 2.5 nautical miles southwest of St.
Lihou Island
Islet
Photo: algo52, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Lihou is a small tidal island just off the west coast of the island of Guernsey, in the English Channel, between Great Britain and France. Administratively, Lihou forms part of the Parish of St Peter's in the Bailiwick of Guernsey, and is now owned by the States of Guernsey, although there have been a number of owners in the past. Lihou Island is situated 3½ km north of Torteval.
Fort Grey
Castle
Photo: Angus MacRae, CC BY 2.0.
Fort Grey, colloquially known as the "cup and saucer", is a Martello tower located on a tidal rock in Rocquaine Bay in Saint Peter, Guernsey on the west coast of the island.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include St Andrew.
St Andrew
Hamlet
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
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 6 km east of Torteval.
Torteval
- Category: parish of Guernsey
- Location: Guernsey, Channel Islands, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Amharic to Uzbek—“Torteval” goes by many names.
- Amharic: “ቶርተቫል”
- Azerbaijani: “Torteval”
- Basque: “Torteval”
- Bengali: “টর্টেভাল”
- Breton: “Tortévas”
- Bulgarian: “Тортевал”
- Cebuano: “Torteval”
- Chinese: “托特瓦爾”
- Cornish: “Torteval, Gernsi”
- Dutch: “Torteval”
- French: “Torteval”
- German: “Torteval”
- Hausa: “Torteval”
- Indonesian: “Torteval, Guernsey”
- Interlingue: “Torteval”
- Italian: “Torteval (Guernsey)”
- Italian: “Torteval”
- Italian: “Tortévas”
- Japanese: “トルトヴァル”
- Javanese: “Torteval”
- Kazakh: “Тортевал”
- Kirghiz: “Тортевал”
- Lithuanian: “Tortevalo parapija”
- Malay: “Torteval”
- Narom: “Tortévas”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Torteval”
- Norwegian: “Torteval”
- Oromo: “Torteval”
- Panjabi: “ਟੋਰਟੇਵਾਲ”
- Persian: “تورتوال”
- Polish: “Torteval”
- Portuguese: “Torteval”
- Pushto: “تورتوال”
- Russian: “Тортевал”
- Somali: “Torteval”
- Spanish: “Torteval”
- Swahili: “Torteval”
- Swedish: “Torteval”
- Tajik: “Тортевал”
- Tatar: “Тортевал”
- Uzbek: “Torteval”
- “Torteval”
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