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Saint Peter Parish, Montserrat

civil parish of Montserrat

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionOct 1, 2025
Entity authorityQ3464018 ↗
Source-derived summary

Saint Peter is one of Montserrat's three administrative parishes. As of 2009, it is the only parish to be inhabited. This would give the parish a population of between 4,000 and 6,000. Saint Peter Parish covers the north-west of the island, and was therefore least affected by the eruptions of Soufrière Hills, the island's volcano.

The John A. Osborne Airport is located in the parish.

Populated places

Brades

Davy Hill

Lookout

Salem

St. John's

St.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Saint Peter Parish, Montserrat” is civil parish of Montserrat. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Saint, Peter and Parish, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2009—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Saint, Peter and Parish is the immediate research focus.
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Why this record matters

The phrase “civil parish of Montserrat” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Oct 1, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q3464018. Authority coordinates are 16.783, -62.205. 1 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2009.

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This entry incorporates text from “Saint Peter Parish, Montserrat” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.