Anne Port

On the coast

Anne Port Anne Port is a small bay on the north east coast of Jersey 360-degree panoramic view Click on Pegman to view the location in Google Street View

A seaplane at Anne Port in the late 1920s. This is a very rare photograph of a seaplane landing anywhere other than in St Aubin's Bay in Jersey's coastal waters. The aircraft may have landed in St Catherine's Bay and taxied to Anne Port as the first stretch of beach where it could disembark passengers. This is a six-seater Vickers Viking IV seaplane, registered G-EBED to Leslie Hamilton of the Royal Aero Club in 1926 and possibly destroyed in 1929

1989 stamp

Anne Port is a sandy beach on Jersey's east coast, between Gorey and St Catherine. It has always had very limited parking, so never becomes overcrowded.

It is overlooked at its southern end by a rock face known as Le Saut Geoffroi (Jeffrey's Leap) which legend has it was the scene of ancient executions, with those suspected of witchcraft pushed over the cliff face to die on the rocks below.

Anne Port one of the stops on our coastal tour of Jersey

The bay is dominated by Anne Port Farm, built in the late 20th century

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  Anne Port, a pretty bay on Jersey's east coast, just north of Gorey
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  An artist's impression of Anne Port painted in 1890
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  Anne Port in 1860
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  A picture from 1926
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  The cafe on the cliff edge has closed
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  By Charles Paine
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  by Leonard Rich
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  Anne Port Cottage
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  The original Anne Port farm

This early photograph shows the extent to which the cliff face has been eroded today. The field in the foreground no longer exists

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  Anne Port Hill in 1935
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The coast road, once a track

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  A view on an early Wrench postcard
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  1951 aerial photograph by Aerofilms
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  1905 photograph. A better quality untinted version of this image can be seen lower down the page
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  Jeffrey's Leap
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  Cottage at Anne Port
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  Vraic covers the road after a storm
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An LL postcard from the early 20th century showing the unusual sight of the type of surf normally found on the island's west-facing beaches, blown into the bay here by a strong easterly wind

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  View over the cafe at Jeffrey's Leap in 1965
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  Geoffroy's Leap
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  Anne Port Cafe
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  A recent view with St Catherine's Breakwater in the background
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An unusual view looking down on the bay from the north

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  LL postcard
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  1905 photograph by Albert Smith
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  Picture courtesy of Jersey Temps Passe
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  This cafe opposite the slipway in the bay was operating until at least the early 1960s
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  Ivy Cafe - date unknown
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An aerial photograph from 2018 by Chris Brookes

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  Work on building a new house for the Farrow family under way in 1971 ...
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  ... and the finished property as seen from the road in 2020