Brecqhou (or Brechou; French pronunciation: [bʁɛku]) is one of the Channel Islands, located off the west coast of Sark where they are now geographically...
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Sunday Telegraph. In 1993, the brothers bought the lease of the island of Brecqhou, one of the smallest of the Channel Islands, just off the coast of Sark...
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It has a population of about 500. Sark (including the nearby island of Brecqhou) has an area of 2.10 square miles (5.44 km2). Little Sark is a peninsula...
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Wight Normandy Some small islands Channel Islands or Crown Dependencies Brecqhou Jethou Lihou Écréhous Minquiers Les Dirouilles Pierres de Lecq Casquets...
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Bailiwick of Guernsey (comprising the islands of Guernsey, Sark, Alderney, Brecqhou, Herm, Jethou and Lihou). A Bailiff heads each Channel Island bailiwick...
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the tenement of the island of Brecqhou to Leonard Matchan. Upon taking up the tenancy, he adopted his own flag for Brecqhou using the Seigneur's flag as...
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Souachehouais (between Le Rigdon and L'Étacq, Jersey) Le Gouliot (between Sark and Brecqhou) La Percée (between Herm and Jéthou) The highest point in the islands is...
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(2 square miles). Its parliament (together with the inhabited island of Brecqhou) is the Chief Pleas of Sark, with 18 elected members. In 1565, Helier de...
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Jethou; a further channel separates Sark and surrounding islets such as Brecqhou; Normandy's long Cotentin Peninsula and, to the south-east, Jersey are...
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from the original on 18 July 2024. Retrieved 4 November 2015. https://www.brecqhou-stamps.co.uk/ "Les Autelets, Sark". Archived from the original on 18 July...
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island of Guernsey and other islands such as Alderney, Sark, Herm, Jethou, Brecqhou, and Lihou. Each parish was established, probably in the 11th century,...
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governed as: the Bailiwick of Guernsey, comprising the islands of Alderney, Brecqhou, Guernsey, Herm, Jethou, Lihou, and Sark; the Bailiwick of Jersey, comprising...
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Islands Alderney Brecqhou Guernsey Herm Jethou Lihou Sark Parishes Castel Forest St Andrew St Martin St Peter Port St Pierre du Bois St Sampson St Saviour...
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pharmaceutical company Big Roussel, the channel between Herm to the west, and Brecqhou and Sark to the east, in the Channel Islands Chérencé-le-Roussel, a commune...
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"ridiculously high tax in England". David and Frederick Barclay live on Brecqhou, one of the Channel Islands, located just west of Sark, and give their...
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or Grand Ruau), is the channel running between Herm on the west, and Brecqhou, and Sark on the east. Picture showing Le Petit Ruau 49°29′N 2°29′W /...
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United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland Guernsey (incl. islands of Brecqhou, Herm, Jethou, Lihou, and Sark) 1198–1204 Lordship 1204–1205 Fiefdom 1206–1279...
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small island of Brecqhou by 8 pm. However the seas were heavier here and the gig was forced back through the Gouliot Passage between Brecqhou and Sark to...
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two wealthy British people who live in a castle on the Channel Island of Brecqhou, "who become cold, selfish monsters in the heart of our democratic societies"...
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night of 9/10 February 1943, as simultaneous raids on Herm, Jethou and Brecqhou. The objective was to take prisoners and gain information about the situation...
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operation that was originally designed to be a raid on Herm, Jethou and Brecqhou, but instead became only a raid on Herm undertaken on the night of 27 February...
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Islands Alderney Brecqhou Guernsey Herm Jethou Lihou Sark Parishes Castel Forest St Andrew St Martin St Peter Port St Pierre du Bois St Sampson St Saviour...
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in a kilt, tunic and gumboots would ride his donkey "Clarabelle" around Brecqhou every day, according to a Fleet Street journalist,: 5 and somewhere on...
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Islands Alderney Brecqhou Guernsey Herm Jethou Lihou Sark Parishes Castel Forest St Andrew St Martin St Peter Port St Pierre du Bois St Sampson St Saviour...
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Islands Alderney Brecqhou Guernsey Herm Jethou Lihou Sark Parishes Castel Forest St Andrew St Martin St Peter Port St Pierre du Bois St Sampson St Saviour...
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Islands Alderney Brecqhou Guernsey Herm Jethou Lihou Sark Parishes Castel Forest St Andrew St Martin St Peter Port St Pierre du Bois St Sampson St Saviour...
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Islands Alderney Brecqhou Guernsey Herm Jethou Lihou Sark Parishes Castel Forest St Andrew St Martin St Peter Port St Pierre du Bois St Sampson St Saviour...
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Islands Alderney Brecqhou Guernsey Herm Jethou Lihou Sark Parishes Castel Forest St Andrew St Martin St Peter Port St Pierre du Bois St Sampson St Saviour...
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night of 9/10 February 1943, as simultaneous raids on Herm, Jethou and Brecqhou. The objective was to take prisoners and gain information about the situation...
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Islands Alderney Brecqhou Guernsey Herm Jethou Lihou Sark Parishes Castel Forest St Andrew St Martin St Peter Port St Pierre du Bois St Sampson St Saviour...
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