Saint Philip Parish

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Saint Philip is the south-eastern most of Barbados' eleven parishes. It is a location where one can clearly visualize the basic structure of the island as being of two plateaus: standing at St. Philip's Church (centered on the outer plateau) and lookin east, one can see the District police station clinging to the top of the inner plateau. Locals refer to the windy, somewhat arid parish as being hot compared to central and northern parishes. Its chief claim is being the location of the world-famous Crane beach; secondarily, the home of Sam Lord's Castle, once a Marriott hotel, but lately fallen on hard times awaiting re-investment. The flat nature of the parish has encouraged the housing boom that moved out from the capital, Bridgetown, through the south-western parish of Christ Church. Although cane-fields are still evident, yields are not what they are per acre in the central parishes; some drilling for oil has also occurred, but the parish remains peripheral, containing no major town or industry. Ragged Point lighthouse, once key to guiding inbound British shipping to Bridgetown, is now the site of a weather station.

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