Entries from 1885 Kelly's Isle of Wight directories
for Civic, Arreton
see on 1904
1885 list of towns
Total number of matches found: 11
To account for missing numbers in Streets, it may be understood that either the house was empty at the time the revision was made, or let in weekly tenements, or that the information was refused.
| The largest Parish in the Island. |
| The church of St George is an ancient ediface of stone in the Norman style. The chancel has been restored, at a cost of about 1,000GBP, and is about to be renovated at a cost of 3,000GBP. |
| Here is a chapel of the Bible Christians. |
| Elizabeth Wallbridge, the 'Dairyman's Daughter', eulogised by the Rev. Legh Richmond, was born in the village, 1769, and died May 30, 1801, and is interred in the churchyard. |
| The area is 9,188 acres of land and 43 of water and foreshore ; rateable value, 14,801GBP; the population in 1881 was 1920. |
| Sexton, Henry Blake |
| Post Office, Arreton - Mrs. Deborah Whitehead, receiver |
| Schools |
| Here is a school, with a yearly income of 25GBP, left by John Mann esq. for educating and apprenticing poor children belonging to the parish ; it is otherwise supported by voluntary rate of one and a half pence in the GBP. |
| National (Mixed), Arreton, Arthur James Jeats, master; Miss Emma Masters, mistress. |
| Carriers to NEWPORT - Dash and Taylor, pass through from Sandown and Shanklin daily, except friday |