Castel
Castel /kætel/ is the largest parish in Guernsey 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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: parish of Guernsey with 8,980 residents
- Description: parish in Guernsey
- Also known as: “Castel, Guernsey”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Guernsey Airport and Little Chapel.
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. Guernsey Airport is situated 3½ km south of Castel.
Little Chapel
Photo: Henkgron, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Little Chapel is situated in the Les Vauxbelets valley, Saint Andrew, Guernsey. It was created in July 1914, by Brother Déodat. He planned to create a miniature version of the grotto and basilica at Lourdes, the Rosary Basilica.
Saumarez Park
Park
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Saumarez Park is the largest public park on the island of Guernsey.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include St Peter Port and St Martin.
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 4 km east of Castel.
St Martin
Village
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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 Martin is situated 4 km southeast of Castel.
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.
Castel
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Urdu—“Castel” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Castel”
- Breton: “Lé Casté”
- Cebuano: “Castel (parokya)”
- Cebuano: “Castel”
- Chinese: “卡斯特爾”
- Cornish: “Castel, Gernsi”
- Dutch: “Castel”
- French: “Sainte-Marie-du-Câtel”
- Hindi: “कॅस्टेल, ग्वेर्नसे”
- Interlingue: “Castel”
- Japanese: “カステル”
- Lithuanian: “Kastelo parapija”
- Marathi: “कॅस्टेल (गर्न्सी)”
- Marathi: “कॅस्टेल”
- Narom: “Lé Casté”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Castel”
- Norwegian: “Castel”
- Polish: “Castel”
- Russian: “Кастел”
- Silesian: “Castel”
- Spanish: “Castel (Guernsey)”
- Spanish: “Castel”
- Swedish: “Castel, Guernsey”
- Swedish: “Castel”
- Urdu: “کاسٹیل، گرنسی”
- “Castel”
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