Speightstown
Sign in to saveSpeightstown (), also known as Little Bristol, is the second largest town in Barbados. It is situated north of the capital city of Bridgetown, in the northern parish of Saint Peter.
Key facts
- Settlement.image_caption
- Causal view of Queen's Street, Speightstown
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- Barbados
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_name
- Barbados
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Parish
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Saint Peter
- Settlement.elevation_m
- 11
- Settlement.population_as_of
- 2013
- Settlement.population_total
- 3634
- Settlement.population_density_km2
- auto
- Settlement.website
- Official website
- Settlement.name
- Speightstown
- Settlement.type
- City
- Settlement.image_skyline
- Speightstownbds.JPG
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- town
- Country
- Barbados
- Located in
- Saint Peter
- Population
- 2192
- Elevation
- 11
- Official website
- www.barbados.org/spght.htm
- Image
- Speightstownbds.JPG
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- Commons category
- Speightstown
- inception
- 1630-00-00
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Encyclopedic overview
6 sectionsContents
- History
- Geography
- Boundary
- Twin towns – sister cities
- Notable residents
- References
Speightstown (), also known as Little Bristol, is the second largest town in Barbados. It is situated north of the capital city of Bridgetown, in the northern parish of Saint Peter.
The area is named after William Speight, a member of Barbados' first Assembly during the Settlement years, and the former owner of the land where the town is located.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Speightstown” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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