Blue Hill, St Helena
| Blue Hill | |
| St Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha | |
|---|---|
| Location | |
| Island: | St Helena |
| Data | |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | Blue Hill |
Blue Hill is a hill and a small village on St Helena, the main island of St Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha. It also gives a name of one of eight districts of the island.
This is a sparsely populated part of St Helena. There is a Community Centre in Blue Hill Village which holds dances a few times a year. The village also attract visitors from the town for camping breaks, though often the ‘camping’ means being put up in the old school buildings beside the Community Centre. (Nearby Thompson’s Wood is the true camping ground.)
The village has a shop
The electricity supply in Blue Hill is notoriously unreliable, largely because the area is at the end of a very long distribution chain
District
Blue Hill district covers in the west and south-west of the island. Its main settlement, with the location of the community centre, is Blue Hill Village. The district also includes the settlements Barren Ground, Head O' Wain, Woodlands, Thompson's Wood, Broad Bottom, and the new housing areas at High Hill and Burnt Rock/Horse Pasture.
The only shop in the district is that at Blue Hill Village. There is a Baptist Chapel at Head O’Wain and an Anglican Church, St Helena and The Cross, next to The Depot.
This is an almost entirely agricultural part of the island. Most of the island’s donkeys are found in the fields here, along the main road at Casons.
Blue Hill is the largest, most remote, most rural, least populated and least densely populated of the eight districts of St Helena. In 2008 it had a population of 153, compared to a population of 177 in 1998.
The main television transmitter, serving Blue Hill and Sandy Bay, is located at The Depot, a small hill on the volcanic ridge between these two districts, along which the road runs. There is a weather recording station at Broad Bottom.
Outside links
- Location map: 15°57’49"S, 5°44’43"W
- Blue Hill on Saint Helena Island Info