St Martin

The Bailiwick of Guernsey is a group of islands in the English Channel, part of the . Guernsey is the main island, some 50 miles west of the Cotentin Peninsula in France.
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  • Type: Village with 6,590 residents
  • Description: parish in Guernsey, Channel Islands
  • Also known as: “Saint Martin”, “Saint Martin, Guernsey”, “Saint Martin’s, Guernsey”, “St Martin’s”, “St. Martin”, and “St. Martin’s”
  • Historically known as: “Saint-Martin-de-la-Bellouse”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Castle Cornet and Guernsey Airport.

Museum
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is a large island castle in , and former tidal island, also known as Cornet Rock or Castle Rock. Its importance was as a defence not only of the island, but of the roadstead.

Aerodrome
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is an international airport on the island of and the largest airport in the . It is located in the , a parish in Guernsey, 2.5 nautical miles southwest of St. is situated 3½ km west of St Martin.

Museum
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is a house in , . Between 1856 and 1870, French writer Victor Hugo lived here during his exile from France. In March 1927, the centenary year of Romanticism, Hugo's descendants Jeanne, Jean, Marguerite and François donated the house to the .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include St Peter Port and St Andrew.

Town
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The Bailiwick of Guernsey is a group of islands in the English Channel, part of the . Guernsey is the main island, some 50 miles west of the Cotentin Peninsula in France.

Hamlet
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Saint Andrew is located in the centre of 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, is usually the last parish to be mentioned in such a list.

St Martin

Latitude
49.4373° or 49° 26′ 15″ north
Longitude
-2.5555° or 2° 33′ 20″ west
Population
6,590
Elevation
101 metres (331 feet)
Open location code
8CXVCCPV+WQ
Open­Street­Map ID
node 8366933049
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
6417224
Wiki­data ID
Q595669
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In Other Languages

From Amharic to Uzbek—“St Martin” goes by many names.
  • Amharic: “ሴንት ማርቲን”
  • Azerbaijani: “Sint Martin”
  • Basque: “Saint Martin”
  • Bengali: “সেন্ট মার্টিন”
  • Breton: “Saint Martin”
  • Cebuano: “Saint Martin (parokya sa Guernsey)”
  • Cebuano: “Saint Martin”
  • Chinese: “聖馬丁”
  • Cornish: “Saint Martin’s, Gernsi”
  • Cornish: “Saint Martins”
  • Dutch: “Saint Martin”
  • French: “Saint-Martin”
  • German: “Saint Martin”
  • German: “St. Martin”
  • Greek: “Άγιος Μαρτίνος”
  • Hausa: “St Martin”
  • Indonesian: “Saint Martin, Guernsey”
  • Interlingue: “Saint Martin”
  • Italian: “Saint Martin”
  • Italian: “Saint Martins”
  • Italian: “Saint-Martin-de-la-Bellouse”
  • Italian: “St. Martin”
  • Japanese: “セイント・マーティン”
  • Japanese: “セント・マーティン”
  • Japanese: “セントマーティン”
  • Javanese: “St Martin”
  • Kazakh: “Сент-Мартен”
  • Kirghiz: “Сент-Мартен”
  • Lithuanian: “Šv. Martyno parapija”
  • Malay: “St Martin”
  • Narom: “Saint Martin”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “St Martin”
  • Norwegian: “Saint Martin”
  • Norwegian: “St Martin”
  • Oromo: “St Martin”
  • Panjabi: “ਸੈਂਟ ਮਾਰਟਿਨ”
  • Persian: “سنت مارتن”
  • Polish: “St Martin’s”
  • Polish: “St Martins”
  • Portuguese: “Saint Martin”
  • Portuguese: “St Martin”
  • Pushto: “سنت مارتن”
  • Russian: “Сент-Мартин”
  • Somali: “St Martin”
  • Spanish: “Saint Martin (Guernsey)”
  • Spanish: “Saint Martin”
  • Spanish: “St Martin”
  • Swahili: “St Martin”
  • Swedish: “Saint Martin”
  • Tajik: “Сент-Мартен”
  • Tatar: “Сент-Мартен”
  • Urdu: “سینٹ مارٹن، گرنزی”
  • Uzbek: “Sint Martin”
  • “Saint Martin”

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Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Professor Shaw Community Centre and St Martin Parish Hall.

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