St Aubin, Jersey

Historical Description

Aubin, St, a small town in St Brelade parish, Jersey, on the west side of a bay of its own name, 3½ miles W of St Helier. The bay is semicircular, has a picturesque appearance, fills all the space eastward to St Holier, and is defended on the west side by St Aubin Castle, on the SE by Elizabeth Castle. It forms a good roadstead, but has several shoals. St Aubin Castle is a tower mounted with 14 guns, and has done service in the defence of the island. The town is the second in Jersey, and has a post office under St Helier, a weekly market on Monday, a pier, inns, a church erected in 1892, and an almshouse. Several handsome villas are in the neighbourhood.