Parish of Saint Phillip (Antigua and Barbuda)

Parish of Saint Phillip St. Paul
Basic data
Country	Antigua and Barbuda
island	St. Phillip
surface	44 km²
Residents	3490 (2011)
density	79 inhabitants per km²
ISO 3166-2	AG-08

Coordinates: 17 ° 4 ′ 0 ″  N , 61 ° 43 ′ 0 ″  W.

The Parish of Saint Phillip , also St. Phillip's Parish , mostly St. Phillip’s for short , often also written St. Philip , is a parish of the Caribbean island state of Antigua and Barbuda .

geography

The parish covers the southwest of the island of Antigua . It encompasses the two eastern peninsulas of Antigua, which are separated by Nonsuch Bay , including the neighboring islands, and extends about 7 km north-south from Mercers Creek Bay to the south coast around Willoughby Bay , and about 10 km west- East from the Central Plain to the island of Green Island , where the Man of War Point is the eastern tip of Antigua. With about 44 km² it has ¹ ⁄ _{10 of} the land area of ​​the state and a good ¹ ⁄ _{6 of} the island of Antigua.

The population is around 3,500, just under ¹ ⁄ ₂₅  (4%) of the state  residents and ¹ ⁄ ₂₀ (5%) of those Antiguas, of which 3100 are locals (population, 90%). The Parish has 1000 households, the average size is a 3-person household (2011: 3.1), which is slightly above the national average (3.0). The population density is around 80 inhabitants per km² (land around 150, Antigua almost 250), the southeast of Antigua is only sparsely populated and the structurally weakest area of ​​the island. It belongs to the less fertile limestone region of the north and east of the island ( Limestone region ) . The limestone forms two barren plateaus on both sides of Nonsuch Bay, the southern one breaks off in an approximately 100 meter high ridge against the Central Plain around Bethesda and the sea at Nonsuch Bay.

Regional centers are Willikies in the north and Freetown in the south.

history

The map from 1775 shows the subdivision of the parishes into divisions

The parishes are the highest administrative units of the monarchy, they represent the historical parish districts that are widespread in the Anglo-Saxon area as a rural administrative division . The main church of this parish was today's church of St. Philip's Rectory in St. Phillips .

Historically, the region was divided into the Belfast Division in the north and Nonsuch Division in the south. These two and the eastern parts of Willoughby Bay Division were in 1873 also administratively as Parish of Saint Paul confirmed (Parish Boundaries Act) .

The space was and is still partly farmland, partly wilderness. After the abolition of slavery in 1834 was to Freetown a freedman-settlement that time, the largest town on the island was around 1850, shortly after the abolition of slavery, the Parish includes the property ( Estates ) Rooms, Parson Maule, Collins, Glanvilles, Grants, Sion Hill, Mayers, Retreat, Comfort Hall, Grays, Wickhams, Elliotts, Long Lane, Gaynors, Elmes, Gobles, Lower Walronds, Lyons, Lavingstons, Ffrys, Montpellier, Archbolds and Browns, Skerrets, Colebrooks, Upper Walronds, Harmans, Mannings , Hope, Watsons, Lynches, Sheriffs and Mangroves - some of the farms still exist today as localities, and some of them have become the core of a settlement - as well as The Rectory (today St. Phillips) Farrs Hill Village (Freetown), Seatons, Newfield, Willoghby Bay, Wilkies, Mayers, Salters, McCay Lands, Sandy Ground, Brooks Land and Grays Hill - these places only partially exist today, some of them were given up after the great Antilles earthquake in 1843 .

In the late 20th century, a number of luxury hotels and high-end residential resorts emerged on the coasts, but they are largely isolated, especially in the southern part (Half Moon Bay, Mill Reef Club, Brown's Bay Resort, Crossroads Center) and made little contribution to economic development. The local population decreased by 2.4% in 2001-2011, St. Phillip is the only parish in the country with a negative balance, a typical rural exodus phenomenon, while the total population increased by 4% (influx of over 200 permanent guests).

Population, residents and households

Kgr. England					Antigua and Barbuda
1821	1844	1851	1856	1970	1984	1991	2001	2011
4323	4057	3885	3959	00-	00-	3252	3352	3490
00-	00-	00-	00-	00?	00?	3100	3202	3125
00-	00-	00-	965	1125	1420	1929	2503	2834

Time series only partially comparable

Population:

1. ↑ 162 white people, 161 free colored people, 4,000 slaves
2. ↑ Villages: 2578, Estates: 1381; Black: 3258, White: 252; Colored: 449
3. ↑ according to Census 2001: 3462

Households:

1. ↑ Houses in Villages: 628 (0 unoccupied), in Estates (total 31): 389 (52 unoccupied)

Administrative structure and places

There is no more explicit administrative divisions , but the Parishes are officially-statistically in census tracts ( English enumeration district ) divided. These correspond directly to the locations of the larger towns or the smaller towns.

In addition, electoral districts ( English Constituency ) are defined, with Saint Phillip representing two districts, St. Phillip North  (No. 14) and St. Phillip North  (No. 15), the second also includes the places Christian Hill , Bethesda and the northern parts of Picadilly in Saint Paul . Villages are also explicitly mentioned there.

place	Village	EW (2001)	ED, Name (S) (EW 2001 )	C.
Willikies	Willikies	1179	60100  North  (269); 60200  West  (217); 60300  Central  (245); 60401  South 1  (227); 60402  South 2  (105); 60500  East  (116)	14th
Free Town	Freetown	714	60600  North  (365); 60700  West  (168); 60800  South  (181)	15th
Glanvilles	Glanvilles	418	60900  Central  (246); 61000  Outer  (172)	14th
Seatons	Seatons	461	61100  Central  (355); 61200  Coastal  (106)	14th
Newfield	Newfield, Lyons	389	61300	15th
St. Phillips	St. Phillips	156	61400	15th
Long Lane-Collins		62	61500	14/15
Mont Pellier – Brownes Bay \ Gaynors		8th	61600	15th
Mill Reef – Half Moon Bay		33	61700	15th
Long Bay		40	61800	14th

^(N)The official name of the census district is preceded by the place. The names have been converted into legible spelling, in the 2001 Census they were merged into CamelCaps .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g} Ministry of Finance, the Economy and Public Administration - Statistics Division: Census 2011 - Preliminary Data Release , St. John's, January 31, 2012, Table 1: Estimated Resident Population Density by Parish , p. 4 ; Table 2: Total Enumerated Resident Population - 1991, 2001 and 2011 , p. 6; and Table 4: Number of Private Households by Parish - 1991, 2001 and 2011 , p. 8 (area data in Square miles; antigua.gov.ag (PDF) p. 6 ff.).
2. ↑ ^{a b c} Residents are members of a household (“ Enumerated Population (Private Households) ”); “ Resident population ” are the inhabitants including members of institutions, long-term guests of the hotels and non-residents (“ … plus persons in institutions, hotel (long-term guests), vagrants ”). Statistics Division: Census 2011 - Preliminary Data Release , Population Categories , p. 3 and more detailed definitions , p. 12.
3. ^ 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) 1990, 1.2.2 Topography , p. 12 ( usaid.gov [PDF; 10.6 MB ] there p. 34, following map Figure 1.2 (3) Physiographic regions of Antigua ).
4. ↑ All Saints: “ Secondary Center ”, Falmouth / English Harbor: “ District Center ”. 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, 5.2.3 Hierarchical Network of Settlements , esp. Settlement Hierarchy Map , p. 103 ff . ( ab.gov.ag [PDF; accessed on February 22, 2014] there p. 121 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.  
5. ^ The Parish Boundaries Act No. 11 of 1873, Cap. 304, 17th December, 1873 (as amended online, laws.gov.ag).
6. ↑ Boundaries of the divisions in map Antigua . Robert Baker, Thomas Jefferys , 1775 ( File: Antigua 1775.jpg )
7. ↑ ^{a b c d} Census 1856; according to The Report of the Registrar General of Births and Deaths of the Census taken November 17, 1856… Enclosure in No. 17. In: Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons (Ed.): Accounts and Papers of the House of Commons . 1858, p. 68 ff . ( Google eBook, full view - tables from p. 71; penultimate table also Census 1844, 1851).
8. ↑ and in 1850 had only a few inhabitants
9. ↑ Census 1821; after Robert Montgomery Martin: History of the British colonies . tape 2 . Verlag J. Cochrane, 1834, table Census in Antigua , taken 1821, p. 362 ( Google eBook, full view ).
10. ↑ ^{a b c d e f} J. Campbell: Antigua and Barbuda agricultural census, 1984 . Ed .: Dept. of Reg. Dev., Organization of American States. A. Final report , Volume I. Washington DC 1986, pp. oA . Quoted in CCA (ed.): Antigua and Barbuda - Country environmental profile . 1991, Table 1.5 (2). Number of households and persons and average household size, 1970 and 1984, by enumeration districts , p. 31 (there p. 53, for more details see above). But St. Phillip's table is missing: The households are excluded, the population appears with 4962 resp. 4943 excessive, but plausible for the other parishes
    
11. ↑ ^{a b c} [ The Constituencies Boundaries Commission Order, 1984, made by the Governor-General under section 65 of the Constitution (Constituencies Boundaries Commission Order, 1984) ( Memento of June 19, 2004 in the Internet Archive ) The Constituencies Boundaries Commission Order, 1984, made by the Governor-General under section 65 of the Constitution (Constituencies Boundaries Commission Order, 1984) ] , SI 1984, No.4, 28th day of February, 1984; in particular Schedule 16. (PDF, antiguaelections.com, p. 11 there)
12. ↑ ^{a b c} 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 , 2nd St.Phillip . P. 31 ( ab.gov.ag (PDF) there p. 43 - longer loading time).