Vingtaine de Samarès is one of the three
vingtaine
A vingtaine (literally "group of twenty" in French) is a political subdivision of Jersey. They are subdivisions of the various parishes of Jersey, and one, La Vingtaine de la Ville (The Vingtaine of the town), in Saint Helier is further divided ...
s of the Parish of
St. Clement in
Jersey
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,
Channel Islands
The Channel Islands ( nrf, Îles d'la Manche; french: îles Anglo-Normandes or ''îles de la Manche'') are an archipelago in the English Channel, off the French coast of Normandy. They include two Crown Dependencies: the Bailiwick of Jersey, ...
.
It takes its name from the
salt marsh
A salt marsh or saltmarsh, also known as a coastal salt marsh or a tidal marsh, is a coastal ecosystem in the upper coastal intertidal zone between land and open saltwater or brackish water that is regularly flooded by the tides. It is domin ...
that used to occupy much of the area of this low-lying coastal vingtaine.
Samarès used to be served by the
Jersey Eastern Railway. The local train station was opened on 7 August 1873, and closed on 21 June 1929. The station building still exists, and is now a private house.
Places in the vingtaine
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Samarès Manor
*Samarès primary school
*
Mont Ubé and its dolmen
*La Grève d'Azette, a sandy beach which spans from ''Le Dicq'' to ''
La Motte''
*
FB Playing Fields
FB Playing Fields or Florence Boot Fields is a multi-purpose stadium in the parish of St. Clement, Jersey. The grounds are named after benefactor Florence Boot (1863 - 1952) who was the Jersey-born wife of Jesse Boot, 1st Baron Trent.
Histor ...
, sports pitches and facilities
*Rocque Berg, the Witches' Rock connected with beliefs of witchcraft
*
La Motte, a
tidal island
A tidal island is a piece of land that is connected to the mainland by a natural or man-made causeway that is exposed at low tide and submerged at high tide. Because of the mystique surrounding tidal islands, many of them have been sites of ...
and prehistoric site
File:Samarès train station.jpg, The former train station
File:Rue de Samarès.jpg, A house on Rue de Samarès
File:Dolmen du Mont Ubé, Jèrri 2.jpg, The dolmen at Mont Ubé
See also
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Vingtaine du Rocquier
Vingtaine du Rocquier (Jèrriais: ''Vîngtaine du Rotchi'') is one of the three vingtaines of the Parish of Saint Clement in Jersey. ''Rotchi'' means rock or rocky place in Jèrriais, and the vingtaine covers generally low-lying coastal terrain ...
*
Grande Vingtaine
Footnotes and references
Samares
Saint Clement, Jersey
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