Fitches Creek (location)

Fitches Creek
Fitches Creek
Coordinates	17 ° 7 ′  N , 61 ° 48 ′  W Coordinates: 17 ° 7 ′  N , 61 ° 48 ′  W
Basic data
Country	Antigua and Barbuda
island	Antigua
Parish	St. George
Enumeration District	41800 FitchesCreek
Residents	151 (2001)

Fitches Creek is a small town in Saint Georges Parish on the Caribbean island of Antigua , in the state of Antigua and Barbuda .

Location and landscape

Fitches Creek is located on Fitches Creek Bay , a bay of the North Sound on the densely populated northeast coast of Antigua. Inland is Pigotts , with which Fitches Creek is largely grown. To the north is Antiguas Airport, VC Bird International . To the south, near Weirs, is the Sir Vivian Richards cricket and football stadium .

To the north, at Winthorpes Foot Creek and south, at Fitches Creek , there are still mangrove-covered wetlands.

The place has around 150 inhabitants and around 110 households, which makes it a characteristic villa village. Today the place presents itself as a spacious, relaxed collection of upscale properties.

Neighboring locations or locations:

	Airport
Osbourne
Piggotts	Weirs

History, infrastructure and sights

The river, bay and town are named after the property of the Fitch planter family that was located here. By 1840, at the time of the abolition of slavery, the Fitch's Creek Estate was one of the largest on the island, had 260 residents, and covered 200  hectares (500  acres ), of which 120 hectares were cultivated, mainly sugar cane for the island Export.

As early as 1687, a chapel was built north of the property, the Anglican St. George's Church , which was later a subsidiary church of St. Philip’s . In 1725 it was elevated to a parish, the sixth on the island - the Parish of Saint George (parish district as an administrative unit) is still named after it. The church by the sea, however, remained remote, the places developed mainly a little inland. Fitches Creek as a place did not emerge until the late 20th century.

Fitches Creek has no beach to speak of, but rather a few small quays on the relatively open bay. The church - and in the case of the latter also the location - were particularly hard hit by Hurricane Dog in 1950 and Hurricane Luis in 1995.

The mangroves in the north, towards the airport around the mouth of Winthorpes Foot Creek, are among the larger remaining populations of the island, and the mouth of Fitches Creek is largely natural. They are considered a good place for bird watching, an Important Bird Area (AG007, Fitches Creek Bay with the Blackman's Point peninsula and Parham Harbor ) has also been established here and a Protected Area (onA) is under discussion.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} National Statistics Office: Census 2001 , Volume I Summary Social, Economic, Demographic, and Housing Characteristics , St. John's, July 2004, Table 8 Population by Enumeration District and Sex , 4. St. Georges . P. 30 ( ab.gov.ag PDF, p. 42 - longer loading time).
2. ↑ Roger de Peiza (Ed.): Antigua and Barbuda National ICT Household Survey. September 29, 2008, Appendix A Detailed List of Enumeration Districts by Parish: St. Paul. P. 34 ( ab.gov.ag PDF, p. 39).
3. ↑ James A. Thome, J. Hornace Kimball: Emancipation in the West Indies . In: The Friend: A Religious and Literary Journal . tape XI , no. 34 . Publisher John Richardson, 1838, Fitch's Creek Estate Section , p. 266 , col. 1 ( full view in Google Book Search - full article pp. 265–267).
4. ↑ ^{a b} St George's Church, Antigua , Blog, posted by Mark in Images by Mark Summerfield , msummerfieldimages.com, July 29, 2013 (with photos of the church).
5. ^ An Act for dividing the Parish of Saint Peter in the said Island; and for erecting a new Parish, to be called the Parish of Saint George . Laws of the Island of Antigua, 12th Geo. In O. 184, AD 1725; in Anthony Brown: The Laws of the Island of Antigua: Consisting of the Acts of the Leeward Islands, Coming 8 Novem. 1690 Ending April 21, 1798, and the Acts of Antigua Commencing April 10, 1668, ending May 7, 1804 . Bagster, 1805, p. 245 ff . (Google eBook, full view).
6. ↑ Wildland is still shown here on an inventory map of the settlement structure of the 1970s . The Caribbean Conservation Association - CCA (Ed.): Antigua and Barbuda - Country environmental profile . i. A. The Government of Antigua and Barbuda - Historical, Conservation, and Environmental Commission. St. Michael (Barbados) 1991, Figure 7.1 (1) Antigua land use from physical development plan prepared by the Planning Office, 1977 , p. 137 ( usaid.gov [PDF; 10.6 MB ] there p. 157). Genivar Trinidad & Tobago; Ivor Jackson and Associates, Kingdome Consultants Inc. (Assoc.): Sustainable Island Resource Management Zoning Plan for Antigua and Barbuda (including Redonda) . Port of Spain December 2011, 5.1.2 Development Trends , p.
    98 , col. 2 , here p. 117 ( ab.gov.ag [PDF; accessed on February 22, 2014] there p. 56 ff). ab.gov.ag ( Memento of the original from October 6, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
7. ↑ forg. > CCA (Ed.): Country environmental profile . Figure 3.1 (3). The mangrove areas of Antigua (source: adapted from British Directorate of Overseas Survey, 1980; ...) , p. 88 (there p. 109; and text p. 109 col. 1).
8. ↑ Adam Vaitilingam: The Rough Guide to Antigua and Barbuda . Series of miniguides . Publisher Rough Guides, 2001, ISBN 978-1-85828-715-7 , chapter Fitches Creek Bay and Parham , p. 54 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
9. ^ AG007 Fitches Creek Bay. Site profile. In: birdlife.org> Sites - Important Bird Areas (IBAs). BirdLife International, accessed February 28, 2014 .