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Name Image Location Criteria Year Description; Historic Bridgetown and its Garrison: Saint Michael Parish. Cultural (ii) (iii) (iv) 2011 Historic Bridgetown and its Garrison, an outstanding example of British colonial architecture consisting of a well-preserved old town built in the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries, which testifies to the spread of Great Britain's Atlantic colonial empire.
Charles Fort (originally Needham's Fort) is a historic military fortification and UNESCO World Heritage Site in Bridgetown, Barbados. It was originally built in 1650, and rebuilt in 1811. [1] It is located at Needham's Point on the southwestern side of the island, overlooking Carlisle Bay. [2]
Barbados Mutual Life: Butterfield Bank/ Goddards Enterprises Lower Broad St. In-use Commercial (B) Town Hall Building: Barbados Tourism Investment Inc. Cheapside Main Rd. In-use Commercial (B) Saint Mary's (Anglican) Church: Saint Mary's (Anglican) Church Cheapside Main Rd. In-use Church Carlisle Bond: Carlisle Bond Hincks St. In-use Commercial (A)
Barbados is an island country in the southeastern Caribbean Sea, situated about 100 miles (160 km) east of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines.Roughly triangular in shape, the island measures some 21 miles (34 km) from northwest to southeast and about 14 miles (23 km) from east to west at its widest point.
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Barbados has a number of plantations and great house properties that were instrumental in the islands' booming sugar trade. Families often owned several plantations and the acreage of each often changed when owners bought and/or sold plots of nearby land. The sizes quoted here had been recorded as of 1915.