Castel

Castel /kætel/ is the largest parish in in terms of area. The parish has clear evidence of changes in ancient sea-levels, with trunks of an oak forest visible on Vazon beach at very low tide and at 8 m above sea level an ancient beach.
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  • Type: parish of Guernsey with 8,980 residents
  • Description: parish in Guernsey
  • Also known as: “Castel, Guernsey”, “Lé Casté”, and “Sainte-Marie-du-Câtel”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Guernsey Airport and Little Chapel.

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 south of Castel.

Photo: Henkgron, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The is situated in the Les Vauxbelets valley, . It was created in July 1914, by Brother Déodat. He planned to create a miniature version of the grotto and basilica at , the .

Park
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is the largest public park on the island of .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include St Peter Port and St Martin.

Town
Photo: Alistair Young, CC BY 2.0.
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. is situated 4 km east of Castel.

Village
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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. is situated 4 km southeast of Castel.

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.

Castel

Latitude
49.465° or 49° 27′ 54″ north
Longitude
-2.5936° or 2° 35′ 37″ west
Population
8,980
Elevation
33 metres (108 feet)
Open location code
8CXVFC84+2H
Geo­Names ID
6417229
Wiki­data ID
Q2070272
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Amharic to Uzbek—“Castel” goes by many names.
  • Amharic: “ካስተል”
  • Azerbaijani: “Kastel”
  • Basque: “Castel”
  • Bengali: “কাস্টেল”
  • Breton: “Lé Casté”
  • Cebuano: “Castel (parokya)”
  • Cebuano: “Castel”
  • Chinese: “卡斯特爾”
  • Cornish: “Castel, Gernsi”
  • Dutch: “Castel”
  • French: “Sainte-Marie-du-Câtel”
  • German: “Castel”
  • Hausa: “Castel”
  • Hindi: “कॅस्टेल, ग्वेर्नसे”
  • Interlingue: “Castel”
  • Italian: “Castel”
  • Italian: “Lé Casté”
  • Italian: “Sainte-Marie-du-Câtel”
  • Japanese: “カステル”
  • Javanese: “Kastel”
  • Kazakh: “Кастел”
  • Kirghiz: “Кастел”
  • Lithuanian: “Kastelo parapija”
  • Malay: “Castel”
  • Marathi: “कॅस्टेल (गर्न्सी)”
  • Marathi: “कॅस्टेल”
  • Narom: “Castel”
  • Narom: “Lé Casté”
  • Narom: “Sainte-Marie-du-Câtel”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Castel”
  • Norwegian: “Castel”
  • Oromo: “Castel”
  • Panjabi: “ਕਾਸਟਲ”
  • Persian: “کاستل”
  • Polish: “Castel”
  • Portuguese: “Castel”
  • Pushto: “کاستل”
  • Russian: “Кастел”
  • Silesian: “Castel”
  • Somali: “Castel”
  • Spanish: “Castel (Guernsey)”
  • Spanish: “Castel”
  • Swahili: “Castel”
  • Swedish: “Castel, Guernsey”
  • Swedish: “Castel”
  • Tajik: “Кастел”
  • Tatar: “Кастел”
  • Urdu: “کاسٹیل، گرنسی”
  • Uzbek: “Kastel”
  • “Castel”

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