Entries from 1885 Kelly's Isle of Wight directories
for Civic, Newtown
see on 1904
1885 list of towns
Total number of matches found: 7
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.
| Calbourne Directory |
| Newtown, formerly a chapelry in this parish, was, in 1872, separated therefrom, and, with part of Shalfleet, formed into an ecclesiastical parish ; it lies to the north, on the Solent, about 7 miles west from Newport and 5 east from Yarmouth. Although now small village, it was anciently a town of some importance, called Francheville, the ground still showing evidences of two long streets running east and west, and connected by other shorter streets running north and south ; some ancient deeds preserve the names of High street and Gold street. |
| Newtown is said to have been burned by the Danes in 1001, and it certainly was by the French in the reign of Richard II, from which last devastation it arose under its present name of Newtown. |
| It received from Queen Elizabeth the privilege (which was annulled by the Reform Act) of sending two members to Parliament; they were elected in the Town Hall, which stands on an eminence overlooking one of the creeks of the harbour. |
| Here is a secure and pleasant haven, formed by a broad estuary, which divides' into small creeks, at the points where four or five rivulets fall into the sea: Newtown stands between two of them. |
| Here are salterns, where a considerable quantity of salt is manufactured. |
| The chapel of the Holy Ghost, which has been rebuilt, is a stone structure, in the Norman style. |
| The population in 1881 was 356. |