Vale | |
|---|---|
 Flag | |
 Location of Vale in Guernsey | |
| Crown Dependency | Guernsey, Channel Islands |
| Government | |
| • Electoral district | Vale |
| Area | |
• Total | 8.8 km2 (3.4 sq mi) |
| • Rank | Ranked 2nd |
| Population (2019) | |
• Total | 9,514 |
| • Density | 1,100/km2 (2,800/sq mi) |
| Time zone | GMT |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+01 |
Vale (Guernésiais: Lé Vale; French: Le Valle) 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.[1]
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.[2]: 128–9