Welcome to Saint Helier!
Jersey is the largest and southernmost of the Channel Islands. It's a self-governing dependency of the British Crown, but not part of the United Kingdom. It lies 14 mi (23 km) west of the Cherbourg peninsula of France in the Bay of St Malo, rather than in the Channel proper.
With a resident population of around 108,000, Jersey extends some 9 miles east-west and 5 miles north-south. The island's capital, with a third of the population, is St Helier on the south coast. The center of the island's economy, the port town includes museums, shops, entertainment venues, and visitor attractions, such as Elizabeth Castle.
A broad bay sweeps west from town to St Brelade, which includes the charming village of St Aubin and the popular beaches on its south coast. To the east of the town are the parishes of Grouville and St Clement, which also feature popular sandy beaches, as well as the small village of Gorey, which is overlooked by Mont Orgeuil Castle. The rest of Jersey is a gently rolling country, a quilt work of small fields with small, straggling villages named for their parish church: St Peter (location of the airport), St Lawrence, St Ouen, St Mary, Trinity, St John, and St Martin.
St. Helier (Jèrriais: Saint Hélyi, French: Saint-Hélier) is one of the twelve parishes of Jersey, the largest of the Channel Islands in the English Channel. St. Helier has a population of about 37,540 inhabitants, roughly one-third of the total population of Jersey, and is the capital of the island.
The town of St. Helier (commonly referred to by locals as just "town") is the largest settlement and only town in Jersey. The town consists of the built-up areas of St. Helier, including First Tower, and parts of the parishes of St Saviour and St Clement, with further suburbs in surrounding parishes. The greater part of St. Helier is rural.
The parish covers a surface area of 4.1 sq mi (10.6 km2), 9% of the total land area of the island (this includes a reclaimed land area of 494 acres (2.00 km2) or 200 ha). The growth of the town has been described as "spasmodic", its expansion reflecting waves of migration to the island.
The parish arms are two crossed gold axes on a blue background, the blue symbolizing the sea, and the axes symbolizing the martyrdom of Helier at the hands of Saxon pirates in 555 AD.