21 Facts About St Helier

St Helier is one of the twelve parishes of Jersey, the largest of the Channel Islands in the English Channel.

The town consists of the built-up areas of St Helier, including First Tower, and parts of the parishes of St Saviour and St Clement, with further suburbs in surrounding parishes.

St Helier is named for Helier, a 6th-century ascetic hermit from Belgium.

An Abbey of Saint St Helier was founded in 1155 on L'Islet, a tidal island adjacent to the Hermitage.

Land now known as the town of St Helier was once not much more than a low-lying basin consisting of marshy lands and sand dunes, surrounded by low hills on other sides.

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St Helier's growth has been marked by waves aligning with waves of migration to the island.

Military roads linking coastal defences around the island with St Helier harbour allowed farmers to exploit Jersey's temperate micro-climate and use new fast sailing ships and then steamships to get their produce to the markets of London and Paris before the competition.

Rapid growth of St Helier was one of the most significant changes in the landscape of Jersey during the 19th century.

In 1776, both St Aubin and St Helier had had roughly the same size, however by the end of the 19th century, St Helier was far larger.

Pierre Le Sueur, reforming Constable of St Helier, was responsible for installing sewerage and provision of clean water in St Helier following outbreaks of cholera in the 1830s.

St Helier is generally considered to be the capital of the Bailiwick, although the island has no de jure capital.

Parish has its own responsibilities and elections to the Municipality of St Helier take place to elect honorary officials who fulfill a variety of roles for Parishioners under the overall control of the Constable, two Procureurs du Bien Public and the Parish Assembly.

St Helier is one of the twelve parishes of Jersey and is the most populated of them.

St Helier has cool, wet winters and hot summers with little to no rainfall.

In 2016, St Helier reported the highest temperature in the United Kingdom for that year, reaching 36.

St Helier set the record for the most sunshine ever reported in one calendar year in the British Isles, at 2749.

St Helier contains cultural facilities at the Jersey Museum, the Maritime Museum, the Jersey Opera House, the Jersey Arts Centre, the performance venue of St James, the sports and entertainment facilities at Fort Regent, the Jersey Library, the library of La Societe Jersiaise and the Jersey Archive.

Parade is a wide area in the west of St Helier, incorporating a park in the centre and roads around most of the edges.

Many places in St Helier have been formally listed as Sites of Special Interest by the Planning and Environment department of Jersey.

Central Market, in Beresford Street, St Helier, is an indoor market that was opened in 1882.

Parish church is known as the Town Church and is the oldest building in St Helier, located on Church Street, across from the Royal Court.