Channel Islands

Channel Islands, a group of small islands off the NW. coast of France, of which the largest are Jersey, Guernsey, Alderney, and Sark; formerly part of the Duchy of Normandy, and now all that remains to Britain of her French dominions, being subject to it since 1066; have a delightful climate mild and bright, and varied and beautiful scenery; the soil is fertile; flowers and fruit are grown for export to Britain, also early potatoes for the London market; Guernsey pears and Jersey cows are famous; valuable quarries of granite are wrought; the language is Norman-French.

Population (circa 1900) given as 92,000.

Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)

Channel, The English * Channing, William Ellery
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Champlain, Samuel de
Champollion, Jean François
Champs-Elysées
Chancellor, Richard
Chandernagore
Chandler, Richard
Chandos
Chandos, John
Changarnier, Nicolas
Channel, The English
Channel Islands
Channing, William Ellery
Chanson De Gestes
Chantrey, Sir Francis
Chanzy
Chaos
Chapelain
Chapman, George
Chappell
Chaptal
Charcot, Jean Martin