A RURAL LIFE
- THIS PRECIOUS LAND -
Some of Jersey’s most spectacular rural landscapes are to be found where its ancient fields meet the sand dunes of St Ouen’s Bay. Today, this area is the heavily-protected Coastal National Park but as recently as the 1980s it was the island’s rubbish dump – as the late Dr Michael Romeril recalled in his last interview in July 2023.
It is a time capsule dating back to the 15th Century. Hamptonne in the parish of St Lawrence tells the story of Jersey’s rural life. Robert Hall spends a day at the Country Life Museum...
Time was when Jersey was full of apple orchards. Not any longer. But that doesn’t stop the community coming together for the annual cider making festival at Hamptonne….as this film by Little River Pictures shows.