Valley Church (Antigua)

Valley Church (Ffryes)
Valley Church (Ffryes)
Coordinates	17 ° 3 ′  N , 61 ° 53 ′  W Coordinates: 17 ° 3 ′  N , 61 ° 53 ′  W
Basic data
Country	Antigua and Barbuda
island	Antigua
Parish	St. Mary

Valley Church , known locally as The Valley , also known as Ffryes or Frye’s , is a small town in Saint Mary's Parish on the island of Antigua , in the state of Antigua and Barbuda .

Location and landscape

The Valley ('valley',) is a somewhat more isolated location on the southwest coast of the island, in the valley , Church Valley (historically Bermuda Valley ) and Orange Valley ( 402 m ) from Mount Obama (ex Boggy Peak, 402  m ) of the Shekerley Mountains. Dark Valley) . The scattered settlement extends along Valley Road and the valleys into it.

Neighboring locations or locations:

	Jolly Harbor	Bolans
		Mount obama
	Crab Hill

History, infrastructure and sights

At the beginning of colonization, Valley Road was laid out along the southwest coast from Bolans to Old Road , and plantings were created. One of these belongs to the Frye family, probably originally from Ireland, from which the name Frye's Valley for the location is derived. the name Fryes can also be found at St. Phillips in the east of the island. The hinterland was called the Bermudian Valley .

A church was also built here, Our Lady of the Valley Anglican Church , which today belongs to St. Mary’s Parish in Old Road, and from which the locality takes its official name.

In the 1980s, the Cocos Hotel and Coco Bay Resort were built on the coast . The Orange Valley Agricultural Station is also one of the island's larger farms, and the Historic Sugar Plantation there is well worth seeing. To the south of the town there are still two ruins of historic windmills.

The location includes several quieter bays on the island, Valley Church Bay (historically Frye's Bay ) in the north, Coco Bay (Little Ffreyes Beach) and Ffryes Bay (Big Ffreyes Beach) in the south.

There are even more significant natural areas in the area: The wetland behind Valley Church Beach is described by BirdLife International as Valley Church Bay Important Bird Area (local protected area designation is pending ), a nature park is planned on Tamerind Hill south of Ffryes Bay (The Ffryes Bay Park ) . The hinterland is to be integrated into the planned Mount Obama National Park . On the other hand, larger development projects are always being discussed, including a cable car to Mount Obama.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} The family is also represented on Montserrat. In 1669 it is documented that Alexander Pollington gave a planting ( The Body ) to “ Master John Frye my overseer ”. Quoted in Richard B. Sheridan: Sugar and Slavery: An Economic History of the British West Indies, 1623-1775. Canoe Press, 1974, ISBN 976-8125-13-6 , Chapter 9. His Majesty's Leeward Islands , 3 The Slow Recovery from French Invasion. Quote pp. 190/191 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
2. ↑ named around 1844 as “ St. Mary's (in Ffryes Valley) ”. (Author unknown): Antigua and the Antiguans: A Full Account of the Colony and Its Inhabitants. Volume II, Saunders and Otley, 1844, Chapter LIII., Chapter Ecclesiastical establishments (republished Cambridge Library Collection - Slavery and Abolition Series . Cambridge University Press, 2011, ISBN 978-1-108-02777-9 , p. 278; restricted Preview in Google Book Search; full text on gutenberg.org).
3. ↑ Coco Bay Resort (with pictures)
4. ^ Windmills of Antigua: Ffryes Bay . Photos on windmillworld.com
5. ↑ Valley Church Beach , antigua-guide.info: Beaches
6. ↑ Ffryes Beach . antigua-guide.info: Beaches
7. ↑ cf. Kevel C. Lindsay, Brian Cooper, Kimberly Baldwin; Jean-Pierre Bacle, Lucia Mings (collaborators): Terrestrial field characterizations and assessments for the assessment and mapping of the Southwest region of Antigua for the Ridge to reef demonstration project of the Sustainable island resource management mechanism. island ressources foundation, December 30, 2011, chapter 4.6. Economic and Commercial Activities. P. 11 f., Gefantigua.org ( Memento of the original from February 27, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF).