La Pulente

On the coast

La Pulente La Pulente, with the sweep of St Ouen's Bay behind Click on Pegman to view the location in Google Street View

La Pulente is at the extreme south of St Ouen's Bay where the island's coastline turns north after La Corbière. The road from La Moye drops steeply down to the bay, from where it is flat all the way to l'Etacq in the north.

This is known to islanders as the Five Mile Road, although the straight section to Les Laveurs is actually somewhat shorter.

Parliamentary troops landed in the bay in the dark on 23 October 1851, but out of sight of the gun battery at La Pulente.

Today there is a small group of recently built houses to the north of La Pulente Inn, a building which was completely gutted during the German Occupation and had to be rebuilt.

• Coast: St Ouen's Bay - south, one of the stops on our coastal tour of Jersey NEW

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  A German gun emplacement
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  An aerial view of the small group of houses in 1997
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  The hotel in the 1930s
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  La Pulente Hotel, gutted during the German Occupation
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  La Pulente with the Atlantic Hotel behind
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  La Pulente from the air
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  Looking north towards La Pulente
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Evening Post photograph taken in 1945 after the end of the German Occupation, showing the clean, new anti-tank wall and the shell of the gutted hotel in the background

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  La Pulente with La Rocco Tower in the background
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  1933 aerial photograph by Aerofilms
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  1954
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  1950s
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  A bus served as a beach cafe in the 1960s
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  1923
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  St Ouen's Bay looking north from La Pulente