Entries from 1885 Kelly's Isle of Wight directories
for Civic, Newchurch
see on 1904 see on 1951
1885 list of towns
Total number of matches found: 15
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.
| NEWCHURCH is a village and parish, about 5 miles south-east-by-east from Newport, and 6 south-west from Ryde, on the southern bank of the river Yar, which flows into Brading Harbour. |
| The Newport Junction railway has a station here. |
| Under the Newchurch Parish Act of 1866 (29 & 30 Vict cap. cxi.) the ancient parish of Newchurch was divided into the parishes of Newchurch, Ryde, and Ventnor, for all civil and ecclesiastical purposes. |
| The church of All Saints, on the summit of a hill, is an ancient cruciform structure of stone, in the Early English style of the eleventh century. The church was reopened after restoration in Dec. 1883 ; the high pews have been replaced by chairs, the edifice has been refloored, several windows have been opened out; plaster has been removed from the roof, revealing the open timbers which have been repaired, and oak stalls have been placed in the chancel. |
| Here is a Congregational chapel. |
| Ashey Down, partly in this parish and partly in Ryde, is chalk, and is one of the highest hills in the island, on which is an obelisk. |
| The area is about 4,524 acres; rateable values 10,535GBP ; the population in 1881 was 1,356. |
| BRANSTON is 1 1/4 miles south-west ; Wroxall, 4 miles south ; Princelett, a mile and a half; Winford, a mile south; Wackland, half a mile south-west ; Apse and Winson, 4 miles south; Knighton, a mile north-east; Mersley, a mile north, |
| Parish Clerk, Stephen Richards. |
| POST OFFICE. - Mrs. Frances Wheeler, receiver. |
| SCHOOLS |
| A School Board of 7 members was formed in 1871 ; Edwin Samuel Barwell Ingram, Pell street, Sandown, clerk to the board. |
| Board (mixed), built in 1871, for 100 children; average attendance, 60 ; William Davis, master |
| Board (infants), built in 1871, for 50 children ; average attendance, 20 ; Mrs. Sarah Davis, mistress |
| Railway Station, James Ingram, master |