English Harbour

Parish

English Harbour is a town in Saint Paul 's Parish, on the south coast of the island of Antigua, in the State of Antigua and Barbuda. The place is an important natural harbor for the Caribbean. He is also the capital of the Nelson 's Dockyard National Park, Antigua's largest national park.

Location and landscape

English Harbour is located on the Falmouth Bay, in the center of the Antiguan coast. To the south is the small Freeman's Bay ( Ordnance Bay).

English Harbour with some 750 inhabitants, the third largest city of St. Paul and Falmouth with its local center.

The place is divided into the Zählsprengel Town, Ordnance Bay in the southwest and Middle Ground, the peninsula between Falmouth and Freeman 's Bay.

History

It has its name from the place Seekriegshafen the Royal Navy, which served as a base for operations in this area in the 17th and 18th centuries. This safest natural harbor in Central America was of extremely high strategic importance. He was after Parham Harbour ( Old North Sound Harbour ), the second port of the island in the colonization, St. John 's Harbour, the main port today, evolved later. The place itself is but younger, the founding town of Falmouth was at the north end of the bay. At the beginning of the 19th century was only port infrastructure.

The military facilities were located in the Ordnance Bay, the inner Freemans Bay, Falmouth Harbour in the large bay was more commercial port. The grounds were well fortified military, at the entrance to the naval port lay on the Middle Ground ( starboard, right) Fort Berkeley, opposite Fort Charlotte. Then followed Buchteinwärts starboard side of the docks ( Dockyards ), compared with the position capstan Ho Battery, and then distributes magazines and other port infrastructure. The Falmouthseitige Bay was the Falmouth Harbour, which lasted until Falmouth. On the hill of the Middle Ground was located Fort Cuyler, the guard-gated inputs both bay below Keanes Battery Fort Berkeley and Blake 's Point Battery at the Cape in Falmouth Bay. The starboard side entrance to this large bay guarded Fort Charles on the Blake's Islet, north of the Deep ( Dieppe ) Bay and the Proctor 's Point, Western Cape. A guard was on the Shirley's Heights to the east, below on the Freemans Bay the position Masked Battery, It was also further north, on the Monks Hill, Fort George built the fortress that overlooks the entire bay system.

Economy, infrastructure and attractions

English Harbour is a Boat and Yacht particular center. There are two protected deep water harbors: English Harbour in the protected Freeman 's Bay in the south and Falmouth Harbour in the wide Falmouth Bay.

English Harbour is known for the Open Air Museum Nelson 's Dockyard. It houses restored buildings and other historic artifacts from the colonial period of the berth, especially from the time the commander shaft of Horatio Nelson. Also worth seeing is the Clarence House, the residence of William, Duke of Clarence, King William IV nachmaliger to the time when he was under Nelson as Captain of HMS Pegasus was stationed here.

Not far away are the Shirley Heights, which as a tourist attraction offers a good view of English Harbour. Saturdays in July there is a barbecue with local bands.

To the north of the bay, on Monks Hill, lie the ruins of the building built in the 17th century large Fort George. You are Cobbs Cross within walking distance, and offer good overview of the Falmouth Bay.

The village has a church, the English Harbour Pentecostal Church.