Paget Parish

Not to be confused with Paget Island, Bermuda.

Paget Parish is one of the nine parishes of Bermuda. It is named for William Paget, 4th Baron Paget de Beaudesert (1572–1629).

The parish is located in the central south of the island chain, immediately south of Hamilton Harbor on the main island. It is joined to Warwick Parish in the southwest, and Devonshire Parish in the northeast. As with most of Bermuda's parishes, it covers just over 2.3 square miles (about 6.0 km² or 1500 acres).

Natural features in Paget include Hamilton Harbor, Coral Beach, Elbow Beach, and Grape Bay, as well as Salt Kettle, a peninsula which protects the approach to Hamilton Harbour, and Hinson's Island, which though geographically closer to Warwick Parish, is part of Paget. The island's only hospital, King Edward VII Memorial, is in Paget.

Other notable features of Paget include Bermuda College, the Bermuda Division of the British Red Cross, Bermuda Botanical Gardens and Masterworks Museum of Bermuda Art.

Camden, official residence of the Premier of Bermuda, is in the parish

External links

Bermuda Online

Administrative divisions of Bermuda

Municipalities	Hamilton St. George's

Parishes	Devonshire Hamilton Paget Pembroke St. George's Sandys Smith's Southampton Warwick

Coordinates: 32°17′11″N 64°46′12″W / 32.28639°N 64.77000°W / 32.28639; -64.77000

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