Home  

Random  

Nearby  



Log in  



Settings  



Donate  



About Wikipedia  

Disclaimers  



Wikipedia





Mandeville, Jamaica





Article  

Talk  



Language  

Watch  

Edit  





Mandeville (Jamaican Patois: Mandivl) is the capital and largest town in the parish of Manchester in the county of Middlesex, Jamaica. In 2005, the town had an estimated population of 50,000, and including the immediate suburbs within a radius of 16 km (9.9 mi) the total population was about 72,000. It is located on an inland plateau at an altitude of 628 m (2061 feet), and is 103 km (64 mi) west of Kingston. It is the only parish capital of Jamaica not located on the coast or on a major river.

Mandeville
Mandivl
City
Perth Road, Mandeville in 2012
Perth Road, Mandeville in 2012
CountryJamaica
CountyMiddlesex
ParishManchester
Elevation
628 m (2,061 ft)
Population
 • Estimate 
(2005)
50,000
Time zoneUTC-5 (EST)
Area code876

Mandeville has a town square, parish church and clock tower, and many large, elegant early nineteenth-century houses line the winding streets in the town centre.

In the suburbs of the town many large houses have been built by returning residents from North America and the United Kingdom on an ad hoc basis. Developers have complemented these with large housing developments, some of which are constructed as gated communities. Prominent[citation needed] suburbs and surrounding areas include Ingleside, Battersea, Knockpatrick, Clover, Waltham, Bloomfield, Caledonia Meadows, Brumalia, Newport, Spur Tree, Kingsland, French Park, Swabys Hope, Lincoln, Greenvale and Marshalls Pen.[citation needed]

Mandeville is a major commercial centre, and is the location of Northern Caribbean University (formerly West Indies College), a Seventh-day Adventist institution of higher learning.

The mayor of Mandeville in 2012 was Brenda Ramsay.[1]

Panorama of Mandeville viewed looking North from Bloomfield Great House restaurant

History

edit
 
The Courthouse, Mandeville (2005)

The town was laid out in 1816, and named after Viscount Mandeville, the eldest son of the Duke of Manchester, who was then governor of Jamaica.

Many of the original buildings can still be seen such as the courthouse, an impressive building of cut limestone with a horseshoe staircase and a raised portico supported by Doric columns and built in 1820. The staircase was added in about 1900.

Many of Jamaica's oldest businesses were started in Mandeville; the Mandeville Hotel, one of the oldest in the Caribbean, began operations in 1875. Its golf club, founded as the Manchester Golf Club in 1868, was the first golf course in the Caribbean. The first "free library" in Jamaica was established in 1938, and is the oldest Parish Library.

The growth of the town was given a substantial stimulus when the Alcan Bauxite Company in a joint venture with the Jamaican Government opened its Kirkvine works nearby at Williamsfield in 1957. It built houses at Mandeville for its then mostly expatriate staff. The relatively high wages lured many educated Jamaicans there. Subsequently, the town has seen an influx of Jamaican residents returning from abroad.

Notable people

edit

See also

edit

References

edit
  1. ^ "Brenda Ramsay returned as Mandeville mayor". Jamaica Observer. 30 March 2012.
edit

18°02′N 77°30′W / 18.033°N 77.500°W / 18.033; -77.500


Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mandeville,_Jamaica&oldid=1185366186"
 



Last edited on 16 November 2023, at 07:26  





Languages

 


Cebuano
Deutsch
Ελληνικά
Español
Français
Italiano
עברית
Lietuvių
مصرى
Nederlands
Norsk bokmål
Patois
Polski
Русский
Svenska
Українська
اردو

 

Wikipedia


This page was last edited on 16 November 2023, at 07:26 (UTC).

Content is available under CC BY-SA 4.0 unless otherwise noted.



Privacy policy

About Wikipedia

Disclaimers

Contact Wikipedia

Code of Conduct

Developers

Statistics

Cookie statement

Terms of Use

Desktop