Entries from 1885 Kelly's Isle of Wight directories
for Civic, Whippingham
see on 1904
1885 list of towns
Total number of matches found: 13
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.
| WHIPPINGHAM is a parish and station the Newport and Ryde railway, distant about 1 1/2 miles from East Cowes and 3 1/2 miles north by-east from Newport : the parish is bounded by the Motherbank on the north-east, and the west by the river Medina. East Cowes and Barton are in the civil parish of Whippingham, separate parishes for ecclesiastical purposes only. |
| The church of St. Mildred was rebuilt in the years 1861 and 1862, in the Transition style from Early English : it is a massive building. The chancel belongs to Her Majesty the Queen, and was built, at her sole cost in 1855 ; it contains a very fine memorial to the Prince Consort, executed at the expense of Her Majesty. |
| OSBORNE HOUSE, the beautiful marine residence of Her Majesty, built by the Queen and Prince Albert in 1845-48, is in this parish; the house is a noble mansion, in the Palladian style, with a flag tower 100 feet high and clock tower 90 feet in height, situated on an eminence commanding very extensive and beautiful views, with lawn sloping to the sea. |
| The queen is lady of the manor. The principal land- owners are Her Majesty the Queen, R. S. Holford esq. of Weston Dirt, Gloucestershire, H. Pinnock, of Carisbrooke, Miss Joliffe, of Padmore, C. Wykeham Martin esq. of Leeds Castle, Kent, and J. Batten, of Fairlee house. |
| There are 4,631 acres of land, and 394 water and foreshore ; rateable value, including East Cowes, 18,332GBP ; the population, including 2,543 in the town of East Cowes & 1,334 in Barton, in 1881 was 4,528. |
| BARTON is small village 3 miles south : it was formerly an ecclesiastical district of Whippingham parish, but now, by Lord Blandford's Act, a separate parish for ecclesiastical purposes. For description and names of residents, see Newport, of which town it is a suburb. |
| FAIRLEE, residence of John Batten, esq. Somersetshire, is in this parish. |
| Parish Clerk and Sexton, John Doling |
| POST OFFICE. - John Hawkins, receiver |
| SCHOOLS :- |
| Board, Barton, James Ashworth, master ; Mrs. James Ashworth, mistress |
| National, Charles Ebenezer Thomas, master ; Ida Helen Thomas, mistress ; Miss Lizzie Maud Thomas, assistant mistress |
| Railway Station, James Knowles, station master |