Entries from 1885 Kelly's Isle of Wight directories
for Civic, Brading
see on 1904
1885 list of towns
Total number of matches found: 20
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.
| BRADING is a large parish, and station on the Isle of Wight railway, at the head of Brading Harbour, an inlet formerly covering several hundred acres. Sir Hugh Myddelton expended 7,000GBP in an unsuccessful attempt to confine the waters. |
| The Brading Harbour Company having succeeded in confining the waters, have reclaimed about 850 acres, which are now under cultivation. |
| A line of railway is completed from the station here to St. Helen's, and crosses the upper part of the harbour. |
| Brading was incorporated long prior to the date of its charter, and is governed by two bailiffs and sixteen assistants, annually chosen at a court leet held on or before the 9th of October, but, by the Municipal Corporations Act, 1883, this corporation will cease to exist in March, 1886. |
| An important innovation will be made by the Isle of Wight Transit Co. viz., in carrying on a specially constructed vessel whole trains of either carriages or goods trucks, thereby bringing the lines of the London, Brighton and South Coast Company at Langston harbour in direct connection with those of the Isle of Wight railway at St. Helens; the vessel is arranged to carry 14 trucks or carriages and is expected to attain the speed of seven knots. There can be little doubt that this enterprise, by doing away with the expenses and annoyances of transhipment, of passengers and luggage, and by the facilities it will afford the inhabitants of exporting garden and dairy produce, is calculated to greatly increase the prosperity of the Island. |
| The church of St. Mary is an ancient structure of stones. |
| Tradition says that the Saxon settlers of the Isle of Wight were the last in England to receive the Christian faith, and that Wilfred, Archbishop of York, sailed from Selsey up Brading Harbour in the year 704 and raised the cross where the church now stands, and that from this period there has been a sacred building on its present site |
| Here are Bible Christian and Congregational chapels. |
| Brading, Nunwell, and Ashey Downs continue the lofty chain of Midland hills westward : on the conspicuous summit of the last-named is a stone pyramid, twenty feet high, erected as a sea-mark: towards its foot is Nunwell, the seat of Lady Oglander, a handsome mansion, situated in a well-wooded park. |
| In 1880 an interesting discovery was made near here by Mr. Hilton Price of the foundation of Roman villa, which proves to be one of the most important remains in the kingdom, many coins of the reigns of Severus Constans and Magnentius and pieces of pottery have been found ; the villa must have been of great importance from its size. |
| The area, is 8,239 acres of land and 799 of foreshore and water; rateable value 45,674GBP ; and the population in 1881 was 7952, including BEMBRIDGE, LAICS, and SANDOWN, in this parish. |
| ALVERSTONE is a small hamlet, 2 miles south-west ; here is a school supported by Sir R. E. Webster, MORT0N and YARBRIDGE are small hamlets, a mile south. Here is a brewery and malting works. |
| Parish Clerk, Frederick O, Bench. |
| POST, MONEY ORDER & TELPG1hPH OFFICE & Savings. Bank (Railway Sub-Office). Letters should have R.S.O. I. of Wight, added, Mrs. Harriet Loe, receiver. |
| INSURANCE AGENT - Yorkshire, William Smith, High street |
| SCHOOLS |
| Board, built in 1846, for 200 children, average attendance, 155 ; Samuel Bulley, master ; Miss Amy Callard, mistress |
| National, built in 1823; for 200 children, average attendance, 100 ; & supported in part by Lady Oglander ; John B. Spencer, master ; Miss Susan Hayden, mistress |
| Railway Station, George Corbett, Station master |
| CARRIERS TO RYDE. - John Adams, from Brading to Ryde daily ; Henry Taylor, from Sandown, passing through, tues. & fri |