Carisbrooke - Harrod 1865 - Civic, Commercial and Private entries- Page 1

Blake John, carpenter, Carisbrooke

Brook Edward, farmer

Burt Alfred William, Eight Bells inn,

Cantelo John, artist

Cantelo William, Castle inn

Coward William, boot & shoemaker

Cushen William, cooper

Flux Walter, Old George inn

Ford Benjamin, farmer, Whitecroft

Forehead William, Cutlers' arms inn

Fry Edwin, boot & shoemaker

GILLINGHAM WALTER, bootmaker, hosier & glover

Groves William, carpenter & wbeelwright

GUY RICHARD, Red Lion inn

Harvey John, farmer, Marvell farm

Harvey William, farmer, Chillerton farm

Hawkins Edward, farmer Little park

Hillier John, farmer, Plash farm

James James, grocer and baker

Jolliffe James, farmer, Little park farm

Jones James, Bugle inn

King Thomas, cabinet maker

KNIGHTON HENRY, grocer and provision dealer

Lock James, farmer, Alvington farm

Lockhart William, butcher

Morgan Charles, farmer, Roslin farm

Morgan Henry, farmer, Ramsdown farm

Morris Micah, farmer, Lower rill, Laverston farms

Redstone James, general shop

Redstone William, mealman and sub-postmaster

Roach T. R. and J., millers, West mill & East Medina mill, Carisbrooke

Sanders Joseph and Benjamin, market gardeners

Seager Charles, farmer, Forest farm

Spanner William, tailor

Stark Joseph, farmer, Froglands farm

WATTS THOMAS, engineer,

Way Edward, miller, Priory mill

Way Henry, farmer, Shalcombe farm

Way Robert, miller, Carisbrooke mill

Woodford Charles H., farmer, Park farm

Young Jacob, posting master, &c.

CARISBROOKE EMBRACES THE HAMLETS OF HUNNY HILL AND PARKHURST.

CARISBROOKE a parish and large village situated on the banks of a rivulet, and at the foot of the Castle Hill, adjoining Newport, and 8 miles S.W. from Ryde.

The church (St. Mary), is a large and handsome structure; the tower, which has an enriched turret and pinnacles, contains a musical peal of eight bells. The church, with several of the other island churches, belonged to the Cistercian priory which was founded by William Fitz-Osborn, the prime favourite and counsellor of William the Conqueror. The living is a vicarage, with residence, and with the chapelry of Northwood annexed.

The Roman villa lies to the left of the village street, near the Vicarage house. The remains are of an interesting character and well deserve a visit. The villa appears to have covered a space of about 120 feet by 50 ; including among other apartments two large halls, one about 22 feet square, the other about 40 feet by 22, paved with tesserae of fragments of roofing tile, and one about 14 1/2 feet square, which was evidently the chief room of the villa, floored with a rich Mosaic pavement, divided into compartments, with guilloche borders, and lotus flowers and leaves, and a vase of flowers in the centre, To the south-west is a semicircular bath with a hypocaust. The sum of sixpence paid for admission after defraying the expenses of the excavation is devoted to the parochial schools.

Here is a National school for boys and girls, and an Infant school.

St. Nicholas Chapel, within the walls of Carisbrooke Castle, with its lands, once belonged to Quarr Abbey; the parish contains 7,049 acres.

Much interest attaches to Carisbrooke from its castle, which is supposed to have been a fortress previous to the Roman conquest ; but the first time it occurs in history is in the year 530 when it was taken by Cedric the Saxon ; the outworks, or the latest fortifications were added by Queen Elizabeth. But what attaches peculiar interest to it is the circumstance of its having been the place of confinement of King Charles I., who during fourteen months was captive in the hands of the Parliament. On the north side of the ruins is shown what is said to have been the bedchamber of the king, and the window from which he attempted his escape, After his death, his children succeeded him as occupants of the same prison ; and here the young Princess Elizabeth died, and was interred near the altar in Newport chapel. The keep, an irregular polygon, about 60 feet in its greatest breadth, is raised on an artificial mount between 50 and 60 feet high, near the north-east angle of the area, and is entered by an ascent of 71 steps ; near the centre of the area is a well 300 feet in depth, cut through the solid rock, supposed to have been the work of the Romans ; it contains 90 feet of water, which is very pure. The view from the ruins of the massive walls embraces a circuit of nearly the whole island, and every variety of landscape - open downs, picturesque valleys, forests, and rivers; northwards, it extends from the pretty village at the foot, over Newport, and along the course of the Medina, to the Solent sea, bounded by the New Forest and the Portsdown hills.

The population of the parish is 7,502, chiefly within the bounds of Newport.

St. John's is a district church, with a population in 1861 of about 3,000 attached.