The places

Antigua and Barbuda

Barbados

St. Kitts · Saint George Basseterre

Basseterre

The capital of St. Kitts and seat of the Federation. The harbour-side capital where most cruise calls land at Port Zante.

St Kitts · Saint George Basseterre

Bird Rock

St Kitts · Saint Thomas Middle Island

Boyd's

St Kitts · Saint George Basseterre

Buckley's Estate

Buckley's Estate sits on the western edge of Basseterre, on what is now called Buckley's Site. On 28 January 1935, the first morning of the cane crop, the cutters here asked for the rate they had been paid three years before, one shilling a ton. The manager refused. When the strike spread across the island and the crowd came back to Buckley's, the Defence Force read the Riot Act and fired. Joseph Samuel, John Allen and James Archibald were killed, and eight more were wounded. The unrest carried across the British Caribbean and forced London to send the Moyne Commission. The movement that began on this ground built the Trades and Labour Union, carried Robert Bradshaw from the sugar factory floor to the premiership, and set the country on its road to independence. The airport you fly into carries his name. Carib Brewery has stood on this site since 1960.

St Kitts

Camps

Nevis · Saint Paul Charlestown

Charlestown

The capital of Nevis, on the western side of the island. Birthplace of Alexander Hamilton; the historic centre and seat of Nevisian craft and heritage life.

St. Kitts

Cockleshell Bay

A wide white-sand bay on the south-east peninsula of St. Kitts, looking across the Narrows to Nevis. Home to Llewellyn Clarke's hot pepper sauce kitchen.

Cuba

Dominican Republic

Grenada

Guatemala

Guyana

Jamaica

St Kitts · Saint George Basseterre

Needsmust

St. Kitts · Saint Thomas Middle Island

Old Road

A village on the western coast of St. Kitts and the site of the first English Caribbean settlement in 1623. The town gave its name to Old Road Rum Company.

St Kitts · Christ Church Nichola Town

Phillips Village

Nevis

Pinney’s Beach

A long crescent of pale sand on Nevis' western coast. The island's most photographed shoreline, fronting the bay where ferries from St. Kitts arrive.

St Kitts · Saint Peter Basseterre

Pogson Village

Nevis · Saint George Gingerland

Pond Hill

Puerto Rico

Nevis · Saint James Windward

Rawlins Village

A small village on the windward side of Nevis, set in the fertile lowlands the locals call the breadbasket of the island. Volcanic soil, year-round growing, and the home kitchen where Llewellyn Clarke makes his pepper sauces.

St. Kitts · Saint Thomas Middle Island

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.

Nevis · Saint Thomas Lowland

Vaughans

Venezuela

St Kitts · Saint Thomas Middle Island

Wingfield Estate

Wingfield Estate sits above Old Road on the west of St Kitts, next to Romney Manor. Founded in 1625, in the first years of the English colony, it ran as a sugar and rum works from 1681, worked by enslaved Africans until emancipation. The stone ruins still stand: the mill, the aqueduct, the lime kiln, and a rum still among the oldest found anywhere in the region. Old Road Rum distils on the estate again, on the ground where the work first began. It is a working heritage site today, open for tours alongside Caribelle Batik next door.