Mile Gully & Around Sights

  1. Bethany Moravian Church

    The Bethany road climbs sharply and delivers you at the Bethany Moravian Church - a simple gray stone building dating to 1835, dramatically perched four-square midway up the hill with fantastic valley views. The church is rather dour close up but the simple interior boasts a resplendent organ.

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  2. Nazareth Moravian Church

    To the south of the B6, perched atop the Don Figuerero Mountains, at Maidstone, is Nazareth Moravian Church. Maidstone was one of the best-planned post-emancipation 'free villages,' founded in 1840.

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  3. Ripon Nature Park

    Ripon Nature Park, dating to 1730, in Mile Gully, produces citrus, flowers, coffee and cocoa and is being developed into a bird sanctuary, wild garden and ecopark by Derek O'Connor, owner of Kariba Holidays & Leisure Tours in Mandeville. The 5-hectare garden has more than 500 endemic species, including orchids.

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  4. Skull Point

    About 1km west of Mile Gully, at Skull Point, is a venerable blue-and-white 19th-century police station and courthouse at the junction for Bethany.

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  5. St Simon's Anglican Church

    Another beautiful church - St Simon's Anglican Church - sits on a hillside amid meadows at Comfort Hall, 6km west of Mile Gully, with huge spreading trees festooned with old man's beard.

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