page_title: Vale, Guernsey
section_title: Features
hierarchical_section_title: Vale, Guernsey / Features
caption_attribution_description: English: L'Ancresse Loophole Tower no. 6, Guernsey: One of fifteen loophole towers built in Guernsey in the late 1770s.
context_page_description: Vale is one of the ten parishes of Guernsey in the Bailiwick of Guernsey, Channel Islands.
  In 933 the islands, formerly under the control of William I, then Duchy of Brittany were annexed by the Duchy of Normandy. The island of Guernsey and the other Channel Islands represent the last remnants of the medieval Duchy of Normandy.
  Much of the Vale parish belonging to the fief Saint Michael, which benefited the Benedictine monks who lived in an abbey that had been built next to the Vale Church from when it was granted in 1032 by Robert of Normandy who had apparently been caught in a storm and his ship had ended up safe in Guernsey. The rights to the fief were removed by Henry VIII when he undertook the Dissolution of the Monasteries.
context_section_description: The features of the parish include:
  Vale Parish Church, St Michel du Valle 
  L'Ancresse Common 
  Bordeaux Harbour
  The Vale Mill (the parishes most prominent landmark) 
  Northern half of Saint Sampson's Town
  Northern half of Saint Sampson's Harbour 
  Vale Pond, nature reserve 
  Beaucette marina
  Military:
  Parish war memorial at Vale Avenue-Braye Road Cross Roads
  Vale Castle 
  Fort le Marchant
  Fort Doyle
  Fort Pembroke
  Rousse Tower 
  Eight Guernsey loophole towers numbered 4 to 11
  Beaucette Battery dating from the Napoleonic Wars
  La Lochande Battery dating from the Napoleonic Wars
  Nid L'Herbe Battery and Magazine dating from the Napoleonic Wars
  Portinfer Battery dating from the Napoleonic Wars
  German fortifications, built during the occupation 1940-45
  Archaeology:
  Le Dolmen de Déhus, which incorporates a megalithic art carving known as Le Gardien 
  La Varde passage grave, the largest dolmen on the island
  Les Fouaillages, L'Ancresse Common
  La Platte Mare, cist in circle
  La Mare es Mauves, cist in circle 
  Martelo 7, cist in circle
  Beaches
  Pembroke (MCS recommended)
  L'Ancresse 
  Ladies Bay
  Bordeaux Harbour 
  A number of protected buildings 
   
  The parish of the Vale hosts:
  Guernsey Electricity Power Station
  Fort le Marchant shooting range
  numerous industrial premises
  Maison Maritaine
  Vale Douzaine Room
  Vale Primary School
  18 hole golf course on L'Ancresse Common
  Annual music festival 'Vale Earth Fair' at the Vale Castle
  numerous quarries
  many old and some still in use, vineries. (greenhouses)
  Countryside walks 
  A weekly 5 km Parkrun event
caption: L'Ancresse Loophole Tower no. 6
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