Overview

As you enter Freeman's Bay at English Harbour, feast your eyes on the stone forts at Berkeley and Shirley Heights, then the impressive Georgian architecture of Nelson's Dockyard. Go stern-to at the massive stone quay and admire how this structural example of brilliant engineering was concocted a few hundred years ago. Within the beautiful, restored buildings you'll find many shops, a pharmacy, a bakery and several restaurants and bars. There is also a museum filled with Georgian artifacts—if you are lucky, you might see Desmond Nicholson, Antigua's foremost historian. Nelson's Dockyard is an official Port of Entry.