The parish of Saint Lucy ("St. Lucy") is the northernmost area in the country of Barbados. Saint Lucy is the only parish of Barbados out of the eleven to be named after a female patron saint, Saint Lucy of Syracuse. Saint Lucy's shape also resembles a peninsula, surrounded on three sides by the Atlantic Ocean to the north, east and west. The Harrison Point Lighthouse is located in Harrisons, Saint Lucy between Great Head and Norse's Bay, also in Saint Lucy. To the south lies the neighbouring Parish of Saint Peter. Saint Lucy is the most distant part of Barbados from the capital city Bridgetown, located in the parish of Saint Michael or Grantley Adams International Airport in Christ Church. Saint Lucy remains one of the less populated parts of the island because of its remote location. The closest major town to Saint Lucy in Barbados is Speightstown located in the parish of Saint Peter. Saint Lucy is the birthplace of Barbados's first Prime Minister, Errol Barrow. It is also the birthplace of two cricketers; Charlie Griffith and Manny Martindale. The historic Parish church St. Lucy is located in the center of the parish, near Nesfield. There is a second Anglican church, St. Swithun's at Greenidge, and a third one, St. Clement's, near Lowlands.

Geography

Populated places

The parish contains the following villages and hamlets: • Alexandra • Allmans • Archers • Babbs • Benthams • Bishops • Bourbon • Bright Hall • Bromefield • Cave Hill • Chance Hall • Checker Hall • Church Hill • Clinketts • Cluffs • Coconut Hall • Connell Town • Content • Cottage • Crab Hill • Date Tree Hill • Durham • Flatfield • Fosters • Friendship • Fustic • Grape Hall • Grave Yard • Greenidges • Half Acre • Hannays • Harris • Harrisons • Hope • Husbands • Jemmotts • Josey Hill • Lamberts • Little Bay • Mount Gay • Mount Poyer • Mount View • Nesfield • Pie Corner • Retreat • River Bay • Rockfield • Rock Hall • Salmonds • Seaview • Spring Garden • Spring Hall • Trents • Upper Salmonds • Well Road Smaller settlements are Avis Town, Blacksage Alley, Free Hill, Friendly Hall, Half Moon Fort, Maycock, Mount Gilboa, Pickerings, Roaches, Shermans, Sutherland and Swampy Town. The police station and the cricket ground are situated in Crab Hill, the post office is in Benthams. There are four Primary Schools, at Clinkett (West), Content (North), Lowland (East) and Trent (Central). The Daryll Jordan Secondary School is in Trents too.

Parishes bordering Saint Lucy

Defined boundaries

Historical Use

Saint Lucy was the location of a United States Naval Facility (NAVFAC), a shore terminal of the Sound Surveillance System (SOSUS), adjacent to the Harrison Point Lighthouse. NAVFAC Barbados was in commission 1 October 1957 to 31 March 1979. The Barbados array made undersea surveillance history on 6 July 1962 when it made the first detection of a Soviet nuclear submarine that was transiting off the coast of Norway entering the Greenland-Iceland-United Kingdom (GIUK) gap.