St Mary Hotels. Saint Mary (Jèrriais: Sainte Mathie) is one of the twelve parishes of Jersey in the Channel Islands. It is in the north west. It covers a surface area of 3,604 vergées (6.5 sq. km.). St. Mary has the smallest population of all the parishes in Jersey. St Mary Hotels.

The Elms, constructed around 1740, is currently the headquarters of the National Trust for Jersey.

Brief Inside Look
This is one of the most northern and smallest of Jersey's twelve parishes. It borders four other parishes. Among the natural attractions of the parish is the feature known as the Devil's Hole (Lé Creux du Vis}, a crater in the cliffs of the coast to which the sea has access. St Mary Hotels. The descent into the Devil's Hole used to be accessible to visitors and was a lucrative tourist attraction, but it has been closed off for decades. Following a shipwreck in 1851, when the ship's figurehead washed up in the Devil's Hole, a statue of a devil adapted from the figurehead was set up above the Hole. St Mary Hotels. This wooden statue was replaced by a succession of modern versions in the 20th century. Greve de Lecq beach is well worth a visit? here you can watch the fishermen unload their catch and soak up the sun on one of the islander's favourite stretches of sand. St Mary Hotels. The Elms is the headquarters of the National Trust for Jersey and is situated at the St Mary's end of St Peter's Valley.

A Group of islands in the English Channel, off the northwest coast of France; they are a possession of the British crown. St Mary Hotels. They comprise the islands of Jersey, Guernsey, Alderney, Great and Little Sark, with the lesser Herm, Brechou, Jethou, and Lihou; area 194 sq km/75 sq mi; population (1999 est) 149,000. Chief industries are farming, fishing, and tourism; flowers, early potatoes, tomatoes, butterflies, and dairy cattle are exported. St Mary Hotels. It has a very mild climate and productive soil. The official language is French (Norman French) but English is more widely used. The islands are a tax haven. The currency is the English pound, as well as local coinage.

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Originally under the duchy of Normandy, the islands are the only part still held by the UK. The islands came under the same rule as England in 1066, and are dependent territories of the British crown. Germany occupied the islands between June 1940 and May 1945, the only British soil to be occupied by the Germans during World War II. St Mary Hotels.

The main islands have their own parliaments and laws. Unless specially signified, the Channel Islands are not bound by British acts of Parliament, although the British government is responsible for defence and external relations.

St Ouen's Bay near St Mary