Saint Martin, Guernsey
Saint Martin (Guernésiais and French Saint Martin; historically Saint-Martin-de-la-Bellouse) is a parish in Guernsey, The Channel Islands. The islands lie in the English Channel between Great Britain and France.
St. Martin | |
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Location of St. Martin in Guernsey | |
| Coordinates: 49°26′13″N 2°33′25″W | |
| Crown Dependency | Guernsey, Channel Islands |
| Government | |
| • Electoral district | South East |
| Area | |
| • Total | 7.3 km2 (2.8 sq mi) |
| Population (2019) | |
| • Total | 6,593 |
| • Density | 900/km2 (2,300/sq mi) |
| Time zone | GMT |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+01 |
The postal code for street addresses in this parish begins with GY4.
The old Guernésiais nickname for people from Saint Martin is dravans.
In 1883, Pierre-Auguste Renoir spent the summer in Guernsey, with a varied landscape of beaches, cliffs and bays, where he created fifteen paintings in little over a month. Most of these feature Moulin Huet, a bay in Saint Martin. These paintings were the subject of a set of commemorative postage stamps issued by the Bailiwick of Guernsey in 1983.
The parish church of Saint Martin was consecrated on 4 February 1199.: 138 At the gate to the churchyard is La Gran'mère du Chimquière, a statue menhir.
St. Martin Parish has entered Britain in Bloom for a number of years, winning the small town category twice, in 2006 and 2011.