Ellerslie Park

Ellerslie Park is an exclusive residential development in the northwestern corner of Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago.

Ellerslie Park is located to the north west of the Port of Spain, on the border between the large boroughs of Saint James and Maraval.

[2] Around 1900 the property was bought and renamed "Ellerslie" by the English-born Rapsey family, who owned food processing plants and plantations in Trinidad.

From 1939 to 1943 there was an internment camp for Germans who were imprisoned as opponents of the war between Trinidadian colonial power and Great Britain in the area of today's Ellerslie Park.

[6] In the 1960s, Ellerslie Park briefly made national headlines when an Islamic Missionaries Guild (IMG) cultural center was to be built on its western edge - immediately adjacent to the residence of the US Ambassador, who promptly intervened with the Trinidadian government.

[6] In 1976, the Trinidadian writer Marion Patrick Jones erected a monument to the district whose elegant villas represent the life goal of the lower-middle-class Grant family in her novel J'Ouvert Morning.

All tourist traffic between Port of Spain and the north coast beaches passes through Ellerslie Park.