Visit Alderney

States of Alderney

The Church and Town of St Anne from Louisa Lane Clarke's 'Alderney Guide' (1851): St Anne, the centre for Alderney's population, is located slightly to the north west of the centre of the island on high ground.

The new church of St Anne was built in 1850 at the personal expense of the Rector Rev. John Le Messurier. It would appear to be much larger than was needed but also had to accomodate the Garrison. The old church had become decrepid and it was said that, with the growth of dissenting religions and the foundation of several chapels for their use, the Anglican Church in danger of being deserted altogether. The building was demolished, leaving only the clock tower standing. Picture at The Alderney Society and Museum.

The old Church and Parsonage in 1830:

• Descriptions of the county and its towns and parishes from different periods can be found in trade directories from the early 19th century onwards - see Directories.
• Travel Writing - transcriptions of a number of books describing early travels in Britain, from Vision of Britain.
• The U.K. Database of Historic Parks and Gardens provided by Landscapes & Gardens at the University of York.
• The complete texts of Defoe's Tour of Great Britain (1778), Thompson's Tour of England and Scotland (1785) and Stebbing's Tour of the west of England. Made available by The Center for Retrospective Digitization, Göttingen State and University Library.
• Geograph British Isles - "aims to collect a geographically representative photograph for every square kilometre of the British Isles".
• Historical Aerial Photography - "an unsurpassed collection of information about old aerial photographs of the UK, from the 40's to the 90's..."
• Britain From Above - "the unique Aerofilms collection of aerial photographs from 1919-1953".
• Round the Coast scanned photographs from "An album of pictures from photographs of the chief seaside places of interest in Great Britain and Ireland" (George Newnes Ltd., 1895)" provided by by Rosemary and Stan Rodliffe.
• A modern map of the United Kingdom.