MARTIN (ST.), a parish in Guernsey; 1½ mile SW of St. Peter's-Port, and including St. Martin point and Jerbour.g point at the SE extremity of Guernsey. Posttown, Guernsey. Acres, 1,799. Pop. in 1851,1,968; in 1861,2,000. Houses, 390. The chief features are noticed in the articles GUERNSEY and JERBOURG. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Winchester. Value, £150. * Patron. the Governor. The church is a plain building of sombre appearance. One of the posts off the gateway of the churchyard consists of a very uncouth figure, said to have been an idol of the aboriginal inlhabitants. There are chapels for Independents, Baptists, and Wesleyans, and parochial s.hools.

(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))