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Port St Mary

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Port St Mary Town Hall is an imposing stone building situated on the village's Victorian promenade at the upper end of the village and houses local government offices and a tourist information point, as well as the hall itself, which is used for performances and community gatherings and is available
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A small 1860s "pepperpot" lighthouse of the end of Alfred Pier was destroyed in a storm on the night of 11/12 January 2009. It was replaced by a temporary beacon until a permanent replacement was constructed in 2018 although there is some controversy over whether it can withstand a storm.
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on which many seamen from the Port St Mary area served, was raised on 29 May 2010 and returned to the Isle of Man to form the centerpiece of a permanent memorial. On 29 May 2012, a memorial featuring the restored anchor and commemorating the losses in 1940 of
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There are two pubs in Port St Mary - the Albert and The Railway Station, the Bay View Hotel having closed a number of years ago. The Railway Station Pub being adjacent to Port St Mary railway station on the main road to Port Erin.
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Just north of St Mary's is the Port St Mary site of the Living Hope Community Church (formerly known as Port St Mary Baptist Church). The current church building was built in the early 2000s on the site of the former Port St Mary
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chapel and known as Mount Tabor. Another smaller former Wesleyan chapel, on the High Street, opened in 1835 and was demolished in the 1970s, with the village's garden of remembrance and war memorial occupying the site.
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Once a fishing and trading port, the village is still popular with tourists and fishermen, especially during the summer. The inner harbour, with its pier created in 1812,
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has a lifeboat and station in Port St Mary since 1896. The current lifeboat, the Gough Ritchie II, lies to a permanent floating mooring inside the outer breakwater.
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Placenames of the Isle of Man: Sheading of Rushen (Kirk Malew with Castletown and Ballasalla, Kirk Arbory, and Kirk Christ Rushen with the Calf of Man)
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GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Port St Mary, in and the Isle of Man | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
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Church, which lies just outside the village and is shared with Port Erin. It is a chapel of ease in the parish of St Mary's with St Columba's in the
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and Port Erin. Steam trains operate on the line several times a day during the summer season, and stop at Port St Mary. The village is served by
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purposes in 1890, for which Port St Mary Commissioners are responsible. The local government district is adjacent to the village district of
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It was claimed in Tynwald on 18 July 2018 that "it appears that Port St Mary Commissioners lurch inelegantly from one crisis to another".
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Chapel Bay, a sandy beach in the upper part of the village, is used for recreation and bathing in the summer months.
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In the lower part of the village, near the port, lies the current Port St Mary Methodist Chapel, built in 1903 as a
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Port St Mary harbour from Bay View Road in 2006 prior to the destruction of the original Alfred Pier light.
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SHK (born Isle of Man 1980) brought up in Rushen, Speaker of the House of Keys, resides in Port St Mary.
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was opened in a ceremony at Kallow Point in Port St Mary, attended by representatives of local and
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The village is home to the Port St Mary Golf Links, the Island's sole 9-hole golf course, and also
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Famous Rugby League player "..one of the most revered figures in the history of rugby league."
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Chapel, which was completed in 1895, closed in 1970 and was demolished in 2000.
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for private hire. The building is thought to stand on the site of the original
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is just north of the village, one of the stops on the surviving section of the
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is tidal and dries out from half-tide. The outer harbour was created when the
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To commemorate the 70th anniversary of her sinking, the starboard anchor of
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is accessible at all tide states - unique amongst the Manx ports. The
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Port St Mary is located in the south-western part of the island, near
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Vincent Peter Patrick Karalius (15 October 1932 – 13 December 2008)
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For the city in Spain historically known as Port Saint Mary, see
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for Rushen between 2001 and 2011, now resides in Port St Mary.
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St Mary's Church lies in the centre of the village and is a
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El Puerto de Santa María
Manx

Port St Mary is located in Isle of Man
Isle of Man
2011 Census
OS grid reference
SC209677
Douglas
Parish
Rushen
Sheading
Rushen
Crown dependency
Isle of Man
Post town
Postcode district
IM9
Dialling code
Police
Isle of Man
Fire
Isle of Man
Isle of Man
House of Keys
Rushen
Isle of Man
54°04′30″N 4°44′20″W / 54.0749°N 4.7389°W / 54.0749; -4.7389
Manx
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