Entries from 1885 Kelly's Isle of Wight directories
for Civic, Bembridge
see on 1904
1885 list of towns
Total number of matches found: 16
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.
| BEMBRIDGE is a pretty village and ecclesiastical parish, formed in 1827 out of the parish of Brading, situated at the mouth of Brading Harbour, opposite St. Helens. |
| The Brading Harbour Company have carried out extensive alterations ; erected (1882) the Royal Spithead hotel, the head quarters of the Isle of Wight Golf club ; and established extensive oyster breeding beds, and placed many acres of reclaimed land under cultivation. |
| The Isle of Wight Transit Co. have a station here for the conveyance of passengers and goods to Langstone Harbour. |
| There is frequent communication with St. Helen's by ferry boats. |
| The Bembridge and Brading railway has a station here. |
| The church is the Holy Trinity |
| The Wesleyans have a place of worship here, built in 1844. |
| A granite obelisk, in memory of the second Earl of Yarborough was erected by subscription in 1849, on the summit of Whitecliff Down. |
| Bembridge Fort is situated on Bembridge Down. |
| The area is 1,581 acres, 850 acres reclaimed from Brading Harbour, a large portion belongs to Bembridge ; the population of the ecclesiastical district in 1881 was 881. |
| POST, MONEY ORDER & TELEGRAPH OFFICE & Savings Bank. - Walter William Osborne, receiver. |
| Coast Guard Station, Thomas Pill, chief officer & 12 men |
| National School, built in 1862, for 80 children, average attendance, 46 ; (girls) built in 1833, for 120 children, average attendance, 75 ; Alfred Smith, master ; Miss Matha A. Dimmock, mistress |
| Railway Station, William Wells, station master |
| TO RYDE. - Broomfield, daily ; Jacobs, tues. & fri |
| One steamboat runs regularly between Bembridge & Portsmouth |