Saint Lawrence, Jersey

Saint Lawrence Jèrriais: St Louothains
Jersey
	Map showing Saint Lawrence
Area:	2,348 acres
Population:	5,418  2011
Island:	Jersey

Saint Lawrence is one of the twelve parishes of Jersey. The parish covers 5,258 vergées (2,348 acres) and occupies the centre of the Island.

Much of the parish is inland, though it has a short stretch of coastline in St Aubin's Bay. It borders Saint Peter and Saint Mary to the west, Saint John to the north and east, and Saint Helier to the east.

Museums

Cidermaking

Hamptonne, the Country Life Museum, occupies restored farm buildings in the parish. An apple orchard preserves native Jersey cider apple varieties and the preinseu (cider press house) is the focus of the annual Faîs'sie d'cidre cidermaking festival using traditional equipment and methods. The ITV drama Under the Greenwood Tree was mostly filmed here

Cider-making traditions are preserved at Hamptonne using a horse-drawn granite apple crusher and wooden two-screw press.

The Jersey War Tunnels (previously known as the German Underground Hospital) are a major relic of the engineering works undertaken by the occupying German forces 1940–1945. They also serve as a memorial to the many slave-workers pressed into labouring on such projects during the Second World War.

Morel Farm is a National Trust for Jersey property in St Lawrence. The arched entrance bears the date inscription 1666. Along with Hamptonne and Le Rât cottage, it is one of the notable examples of rural architecture in the parish.

The arched entrance to Morel Farm

Vingtaines

The parish is divided into six vingtaines:

• La Vingtaine Haut de la Vallée
• La Vingtaine Bas de la Vallée
• La Vingtaine du Coin Hatain
• La Vingtaine du Coin Motier
• La Vingtaine du Coin Tourgis Nord
• La Vingtaine du Coin Tourgis Sud

Outside links

• Saint Lawrence, Official Parish website
• Saint Lawrence at Les Pages Jèrriaises