Gorey Harbour
THE beach has been used for loading cargo since at least the Middle Ages.
In 1685 Dumaresq wrote that Gorey was the most ancient port of the Island and described the pier as ‘old and decayed’.
In 1815, it was decided to rebuild the decaying pier to serve the 150 or so visiting oyster-fishing boats stationed in the port during the season.
The work cost £16,000 and was completed by 1817 and, in the following years, hotels, chandlers and houses were built along the pier when the land beneath the castle was sold off by the Crown.
In 1849 a lighthouse was built on the end of the pier. Gorey became an important commercial and tourist link with Normandy. In 1890 the Jersey Eastern Railway opened an extension to the pier to serve the French ferries.
Gradually, as ships got bigger and required better port handling facilities, the harbour has lost its commercial aspect and has been taken over by the yachts and small craft you can see today.
There were also a number of shipyards in the area between the slip and Fort Henry. From the mid-1840s to the early 1880s they built over 90 boats between them, some as large as 240 tons
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