A
couple of minutes' drive from the airport and pretty much
in the dead centre of the island, The Valley
is Anguilla's only town but not a place where you'll want
to spend a great deal of time. It's a functional rather than
inspiring
place, home to government, banks and the main shops, and
with little of historic or architectural interest.
The main sight of note is Wallblake House (Tues-Fri 10am-noon), built in 1787 by a local sugar planter and one of
the oldest buildings on Anguilla. The house and its outbuildings
of stables and kitchens are not on the scale of plantation
houses to be found elsewhere in the Caribbean - a sign that
planters here were less successful - but the combination
of
thick-cut stone and intricately carved timber is undeniably
attractive. Donated to the Catholic Church in 1959, the house
proved too small for holding services and the adjoining St
Gerard's Catholic Church with its peculiar cobbled stone
frontage was therefore built in 1966.
Hostels in The Valley
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ROOMS ANGUILLA
