MARTIN (ST.), a parish in Jersey; on the E coast, 3¾ miles NE of St. Helier. It contains part of the village of Gorey; and it has a post office under Jersey. Acres, 2,455. Pop. in 1851,3,711; in 1861,3,558. Houses, 581. Gorey-harbour is all within this parish; and, at the census of 1861, contained oyster-fishing vessels with 205 persons on board, and a ship of the royal navy for pr.otecting the fishery with 71 persons on board. Druidic al remains are at Le Couperon arnd Anneville. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Winchester. Value, £190.* Patron, the Governor. The church is a plain building. A chapel of ease is at Gorey, and another chapel is at Royal Manor, and each of them is a separate charge. There are a Wesleyan chapel, and national and parochial schools.

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