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

Canning John, Esq., Low Cliff house, Blackgang

Jervis Lieut., R.N., Blackgang

Pinnock Robert, Esq., Sealand cottage, Blackgang Chine

Pusey Rev., D.D., Southlands

Theobald Rev. C., M.A., rector

Tyndall - , Esq., Blackgang

Baker Abraham, schoolmaster and sub-postmaster

Barton W. Hatcher, farmer, Chale abbey

Bertram Mrs. Mary, farmer, Corve farm

Brown Frank, lodging house, Blackgang

Brown John, farmer, Stroud green

Brown Maurice, blacksmith

Chapman John, farmer, Golton

Cheverton David, carrier

Cotton Jacob, carpenter, Blackgang

Dabell Alexander, bazaar and lodging-house, Blackgang

Hale Benjamin, blacksmith

Jacobs Charles, stonemason

Jones George, Blackgang Chine hotel, Blackgang

Linington Benjamin, blacksmith

Long James, carrier

Lowe Jeremiah, builder, Clarendon hotel

Merritt W., New inn, & farmer, Gladices

Moorman William, dairyman, Cliff terrace

Morris George, farmer, North Grounds farm

Morris Moses, wheelwright

Rayner Maurice, carrier

Roach Henry, farmer, Westside farm

Russell Reuben, farmer

Russell Reuben, jun., farmer, Branistone farm

Spanner Charles, blacksmith

Spanner John, farmer and shopkeeper

Spanner William, market gardener

Sprake Robert, beer retailer

Stallard Levi, wheelwright

CHALE AND BLACKGANG, a parish in the west Medina liberty, distant 8 1/2 miles S.S.W. of Newport.

The church (St. Andrew) has a handsome square tower, and was built by Hugh Vernon in the reign of Henry I. ; it contains a handsome monument of white marble, to the memory of Sir Henry Worsley, who endowed the school, and died in 1843. The church was repaired in 1861, the pulpit is of oak, splendidly carved by Miss Johnson, daughter of the late Sir Henry Johnson, Bart.

In the churchyard is interred Captain Samuel Walker, of the ill-fated ship 'Clarendon,' who, on his homeward-bound passage from the West Indies, was wrecked in Chale Bay, on the 11th October, 1836, when twelve of the crew and all the passengers (thirteen in number) perished ; eighteen are buried here; five were taken to Newport, and the remaining two bodies were never recovered.

Half a mile from the church is Blackgang Chine, a tremendous chasm ; the sides of the Chine are near 500 feet in height, shelving down to the shore ; these terminate inland in an overhanging rock 40 feet in height, over which a small stream from the top of the Chine falls. On the top and at the extreme edge of this tremendous chasm is Sealand Cottage, the beautiful summer residence of Robert Pinnock, Esq., and on the opposite side is the Blackgang hotel; the view from the summit comprises the whole of the coast to the Needles, with the Dorsetshire coast in the distance.

Near to the Chine is St. Catherine's Hill, said to be the highest land in the island, being upwards of 800 feet above the sea level. The Medina river takes its rise at the foot of this hill, at a place called Hermitage. On the summit is St. Catherine's Tower, being all that remains of a chapel built by one Walter de Godyton, in the year 1323. On the brow of the hill is an elegant column 72 feet high, and visible from the greater part of the island, erected by the late Michael Hoy, Esq., to commemorate the visit of his Imperial Majesty Alexander I., Emperor of Russia.

The population in 1861 was 584, and the acreage 2,375

POSTAL REGULATIONS. - Abraham Baker, receiver. Letters arrive from Newport via Niton, at 8.30 a.m. ; dispatched at 5 p.m. The nearest money-order office is at Niton. Post town, Newport.

Coast Guard Station, - St. Catherine's, Lieut. Jervis, chief officer.

Parochial School, - Abraham Baker, master ; Miss Baker, mistress.

Coach to Ventnor from the Clarendon hotel, 7.45 a.m, and 3.30 p.m., (Sundays excepted,) calling at the Blackgang hotel ; also a coach leaves Ventnor at 12 a.m. to the Blackgang hotel, and returns from thence to Ventnor at 3.30.

CARRIERS TO NEWPORT. - Maurice Rayner, to the 'King's Head,' Monday, Wednesday, and Saturday ; David Cheverton, to the 'George,' Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday.