# Elizabeth Castle

Web page: https://guide.je/venues/elizabeth-castle

- **Where:** St. Aubin's Bay, St. Helier, JE3 3NU
- **Website:** https://www.jerseyheritage.org
- **Phone:** +44 (0) 1534 634048

Built on a rocky islet in St. Aubin’s Bay, Elizabeth Castle has defended Jersey for more than 400 years. You can take the amphibious castle ferry or walk out along the causeway at low tide. Elizabeth Castle is the perfect place to spend a day exploring Jersey's history with the Jersey Militia or castle gunner on parade. **

## Coming up

- [Sir Walter Raleigh at Elizabeth Castle](https://guide.je/whats-on/sir-walter-raleigh-at-elizabeth-castle-2026): Thu 29 Oct · ELizabeth Castle · £11.45 - £24.50. Meet Jersey’s famous Elizabethan Governor in person and hear his tales of voyages to the Americas, life at court and his mark on the island
- [Vraiqu’sie](https://guide.je/whats-on/vraiqusie-2026): Thu 29 Oct – Sun 1 Nov · Elizabeth Castle · £11.45 - £24.50. An art exhibition celebrating Jersey’s seaweed, ‘vraic’, and the tradition of gathering it, through sculpture, song, video and Jersey Heritage objects.
- [Meet Albert: The Retired Gunner](https://guide.je/whats-on/meet-albert-the-retired-gunner-2026): Thu 29 Oct · Elizabeth Castle · £11.45 - £24.50. Sit down with a retired Royal Artillery gunner at the Castle's Military Hospital and hear first-hand stories of an army life of service and duty.
- [Meet Betsy the Cook](https://guide.je/whats-on/meet-betsy-the-cook-2026): Thu 29 Oct · Elizabeth Castle · £11.45 - £24.50. A Norman-born cook in Elizabeth Castle's Military Hospital kitchen brings Victorian life, thrifty cooking and her journey to Jersey to life.
- [Meet the Master Gunner at Elizabeth Castle](https://guide.je/whats-on/meet-the-master-gunner-at-elizabeth-castle-2026): Fri 30 Oct – Sat 31 Oct · Elizabeth Castle · £11.45 - £24.50. Stand to attention for the lunchtime parade, hear centuries of Castle history and feel the bang of a signal gun and flintlock musket.
- [The Abbey of St Helier: Jersey in the Norman World](https://guide.je/whats-on/the-abbey-of-st-helier-jersey-in-the-norman-world-2027): 16 Jul 2027 – 31 Oct 2027 · Elizabeth Castle · £12.00 - £25.00. An exhibition and parish church trail tracing how a hermit's shrine became an abbey linking Jersey to the medieval Norman world.