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Warwick Parish on Main Island is the same size of 2.3055 square miles as the
other eight parishes. It was named after one of Bermuda's Elizabethan patrons,
Robert Rich, second Earl of Warwick (1587-1658). He was the largest original
shareholder in Warwick Tribe, later Parish. This association with the central
English county and town of Warwick is overlooked by visitors unless they are
from Warwickshire in England or Warwick in Rhode Island, USA. It is why the
Earls of Warwick were so titled. When young, this Earl of Warwick was decorative.
Later, he took such an interest in overseas expansion that he became a member
of the Bermuda Company in 1614 and was on the Council of the New England Company
in 1620. The earl sent privateers to the East Indies. In 1628 he sailed with
other privateers to interrupt Spanish trade with the west. After the accession
of King Charles, he became a puritan and joined the Parliamentary opposition.
His condemnation of illegal taxation led to his imprisonment. In the Civil War,
he was a Captain General of the Parliament's Armies and was responsible for
the Royal Navy declaring against the King. A friend of Oliver Cromwell, he died
in 1658 mourned by the Lord Protector. About the Parish Because the Earl of
Warwick never visited, early settlers had their own pet name for the Tribe.
They called it Heron Bay because it then had significance to shipping and many
herons congregated there. Then, settlers didn't swim, so the northern side of
the Parish was more important than the south. Today, there's no area of the
Parish with Heron Bay as part of the name. Only in Southampton Parish is
there a school and shopping area carrying the name. Nowadays, Warwick Parish
is famous for its spectacular South Shore beaches. It is also one of the most
densely populated of Bermuda's nine parishes. The islands in the Great
Sound north of the mainland are shown as islands in Bermuda National Parks below.
