Entries from 1885 Kelly's Isle of Wight directories
for Civic, Yarmouth
see on 1904
1885 list of towns
Total number of matches found: 44
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.
| YARMOUTH (or SOUTH YARMOUTH) formerly a market, town, is a polling place for the county and is the smallest parish in the island, and the first port within the Needles passage : it is on the sea coast, at the mouth of the river Yar, over which a bridge has been constructed, uniting this with the neighbouring parish of Freshwater, directly opposite Limington, distant 4 miles by a steam ferry across the sea, 12 1/2 south-west from Cowes, and 10 1/2 west from Newport. |
| The pier opened in 1876, was constructed by the corporation ; its length is 700 feet and it has a 100 head frontage and three separate landing stages ; the cost of erection was about 4,000GBP. |
| The exportation of fine white sand, which was annually shipped in great quantities, not only to the glass factories in the United Kingdom, but to Lisbon and the East Indies, is still continued to a small extent: there are many small vessels engaged off the coast in dredging for iron ore and cement stone, the former of which is shipped to the smelting furnaces in Wales and the latter to the Medina mills for the manufacture of cement. |
| The imports are coal and timber. |
| The town is well built, and is a corporate town, but by the Municipal Corporations Act, 1883, the corporation will cense to exist in March, 1886. |
| The borough was disfranchised by the Reform Act, having previously sent two members to Parliament from the reign of Elizabeth. |
| The church of St. James, a building of stone in the Norman style, consists of a chancel and nave, and having become much dilapidated, was repaired (the tower being raised above 30 feet by the liberality of Daniel Alexander esq. a Dissenter): the repairs of the church, amounting to nearly 1,000GBP, were paid for without a church rate, by donations and public subscription: in a small chapel attached to the church is a splendid monument to Sir Robert Holmes, consisting of a colossal statue, of exquisite workmanship, in beautiful Parian marble. |
| The Wesleyan Methodists, Bible Christians, Baptists and Brethren each have chapels here. |
| At the west end of the town is a small fort or castle, erected in the time of Henry VIII. on the site of the former church, which had been demolished by the French a short, time before: this castle, in 1855, underwent extensive repairs, but it is now dismantled. |
| The Mayor and Corporation are lords of the manor. |
| The principal landowners are Lord Heytesbury and the Misses Leigh. |
| The area is 58 acres of land and 66 foreshore and water; rateable value, 2,411GBP : the population in 1881 was 787. |
| Parish Clerk, James Griffiths |
| POST, MONEY ORDER & TELEGRAPH OFFICE & Savings Bank (Railway Sub-Office), - John Mills, postmaster. |
| CORPORATION. |
| Mayor: James Blake esq |
| Councillors: |
| Charles Wise Hollis |
| W. B. Mew |
| Robert Pinnock J.P. |
| Walter T. Grigg |
| George Samuel Meager |
| William Webb |
| Charles G. Butler |
| Joseph E. Ricardson |
| Thomas Love Peacock |
| James Philips |
| Town Clerk. A. Harbottle Estcourt M. A., Newport |
| PUBLIC ESTABLISHMENTS |
| Coast Guard Station, William Magawly, chief officer |
| Town Hall & Market House, St. James square |
| Stamp Office, John Mills, Quay street |
| Solent Steam Packet Office, James Hall, agent, Quay |
| PUBLIC OFFICERS |
| Harbour Master, Henry Warder |
| Pier Master & Collector, Sidney Nicholls |
| Solent Yacht, Club, George hotel, Quay street (A. J. Wheeler, sec., Thorley lodge, Thorley) |
| National School, St. James street, (mixed), was erected in 1855, with master's residence, by the Rev. J. Blackburn, late rector, at a cost of upwards of 1,000GBP, for 250 children ; average attendance, 147 ; Frederick Spray, master ; Mrs. Elizabeth Spray, mistress |
| RAILWAY. - London & South Western - Through booking office to London, via, Lymington, & receiving office for goods (James Hall, agent), Quay |
| CONVEYANCE - Omnibuses to Newport, (Chambers), from the Quay; mon. wed. & sat |
| CARRIERS TO : |
| FRESHWATER - James Hall, daily, sun. excepted |
| NEWPORT - Drake & Whittington, from the Quay, tues. thurs. & sat. |
| WATER CONVEYANCE - Steam communication to from Lymington five times a day in summer, three in winter ; with Cowes, Portsmouth & Ryde several times daily during summer months (sunday excepted) |