Valle ( Breadth Vale in Guernesiais) is a Paroisse of the island and Bailliage of Guernesey in the islands of the English Channel. Its name often appears in the form anglicized: .

Geography

Parish located at the northern end of the island of Guernesey, Valle is an old island formerly separated from the principal island by a channel filled in 1806. This old island kept the French-speaking name of “Closed of Valle” and the channel was called “the Sling of Valle”.

The territory of the parish is made today of two distinct parts.

The shore is made of rocks and beaches forming a certain number of bays.

History

Monuments

Vestiges megalithic

• Dolmen of Déhus
• Fouaillages, Ancresse
• Varde

Church and cemetery

• the church of Valle (Saint Michel of Valle) was started in 1117 near the priory Benedictine, but the oldest parts of the current building hardly go up beyond 1140.

Other religious buildings

• Priory Benedictine founded into 962 by the monks of the Mount Saint-Michel.
• Vault methodist of Sion (road of the Seams)

Seigneuriaux castles and manors

• the castle of Valle ( Vale castle )

Forts and fortifications

• Extremely Going It

Public buildings

• parochial House
• Room of the Dozen

Others

• the Port Bordeaux ( ) opposite Herm, Jéthou and further Sercq.

Annual events

The parish is twinned with the commune of (site of twinning) and celebrates the Bal of Valle each year since twinning.

Administration

Demography

Births

Death

Parishes bordering

• Saint-Samson in the south.

See too

• Parishes of the Anglo-Norman islands

External bonds

See too

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