Romney Manor

Romney Manor sits above Old Road on the west of St Kitts, next to Wingfield Estate. The house began as the Red House, built in 1625 by Samuel Jefferson II, an ancestor of the American president Thomas Jefferson. In 1834 the estate freed the people it had enslaved, the first on St Kitts to do so, ahead of the British order. Its stone bell tower still stands, the only one left on the island. A saman tree on the grounds is over 400 years old, with branches spanning half an acre. Caribelle Batik has made batik here since 1975.