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[[File:The garrison.JPG|right|thumb|300px|The Garrison]]
{{county|Cornwall}}
'''The Garrison''' is a round peninsula jutting out from the west side of [[St Mary's, Isles of Scilly|St Mary's]], the largest island of the [[Isles of Scilly]].  It is almost an island in itself, joined to the main pat of St Mary's by a sandy isthmus on which the islands' capital, [[Hugh Town]], is built.

The peninsula was formerly known as "The Hugh".  It took its modern name after the intensive fortifications carried out in the eighteenth century.

The Garrison is indeed well named:  this was for several centuries a fortified place:  in its heart stands [[Star Castle]], there are separate gun batteries, and ringing the Garrison the [[Garrison Walls]] built from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries.  The remaining stretches of wall are in the care of [[English Heritage]].

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[[Category:St Mary's, Isles of Scilly]]
[[Category:Headlands of Cornwall]]