Entries from 1885 Kelly's Isle of Wight directories
for Civic, Wootton
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.
| WOOTTON is a parish situated about 4 miles west from Ryde and 4 north-east from Newport, having the Motherbank on the north and an inlet of the sea on the east; the latter is crossed by causeway on the high road from Ryde to Newport. |
| There is a station on the Ryde, Newport and Cowes Railway, about a mile from the village. |
| The church of St. Edmund is an old Gothic stone building, with a Norman doorway : this ancient and interesting church has lately been restored and repaired at a cost of about 500GBP, from plans prepared by Mr. J. Middleton ; a new roof has been put on, the nave re-seated ; the pulpit has been placed in the recess of an old Semi-Norman arch, and the chancel fitted with stalls. An oak lectern has been presented to the church. |
| The Wesleyans have two places of worship here. |
| The village is remarkably clean and neat, the houses rising on each side of Fishbourne Creek. On the one side the banks of the river are steep and irregular and clothed from the very water's edge with flourishing oak woods. This forest scene is contrasted on the other side by the grounds of Fern Hill, of Frederick R. Brodie esq. whose mansion stands at the head of a wide-spreading lawn, sloping to the river, and fringed with a variety of trees and plantations of handsome growth. |
| Lisle Court is the seat of Frank Cowper esq. M.A. |
| The principal landowners are R. S. Holford esq. who is lord of the manor, F. W. Popham esq. and Captain The Honourable Albert Denison Somerville Denison, Woodside. |
| The area is 1,075 acres of land, and 282 of water and foreshore; rateable value, 1,253GBP ; population in 1881, 108. |
| WOOTTON BRIDGE is pretty village adjoining this parish, but it is situated in the parishes of Arreton and Binstead. The road from Newport and Cowes to Ryde passes through this village. Kite Hill is the seat of the Misses Walcott. |
| Parish Clerk, Josiah Cooper. |
| POST & MONEY ORDER OFFICE & Savings Bank, Wootton Bridge Railway Sub-Office. (Letters should have R.S.O. Isle of Wight, added). -John Newbery, receiver. |
| National School, built in 1867, for r 40 children ; Edmund Brading, master; Miss Mary Ada Andrews, mistress |
| Railway Station, Robert James, master |