Entries from 1885 Kelly's Isle of Wight directories
for Civic, Mottistone
see on 1904
1885 list of towns
Total number of matches found: 10
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.
| MOTTISTONE is a parish and small village, about 6 miles south-east from Yarmouth. |
| The church of SS. Peter and Paul is a small edifice. |
| The village is small, and commands extensive views of the surrounding country and the English Channel. |
| Pitt, Place House, in the occupation of Lt.-Col. Henry George, Browne V.C., J.P., is a pleasant residence, and commands a magnificent sea-view ; a cromlech, supposed to have been used in Druidical sacrifices, but most probably Iberian, stands at a short distance from the house ; on excavating a little below the surface, foundations great extent have been discovered. |
| The Manor House was in 1514, the birth-place of Sir John Cheeke, who was tutor of Edward VI. ; it has been converted into a farm house. |
| Charles Seely esq. D.L.. J.P. is lord of the manor and sole landowner. |
| The area is about 1,100 acres of land and 66 of foreshore ; rateable value, 1,210GBP ; the population in 1881 was 143. |
| HOXALL is half a mile south-east, and Southmore a mile south on the coast of the English Channel. |
| Sexton, Samuel Miller. |
| There is a school at, Hulverstone, in the parish of Brock, at which the children of this parish are educated |