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

Coape James, Esq., J.P., Mirabes

Cheap Sir John, Old park

Cottrell Miss

Hawkins Thomas, Esq., Hermitage

White Mr. Frank

Wilkie George, Esq., M.D.

Attrill Daniel, farmer, Nettlecombe

Attrill Mark, farmer, Upper Ash

Griffin William, dairyman

Buckell Francis, miller and farmer, South-mill

Daws Mrs., Whitcombe manor farm

Harvey Francis, shopkeeper

Harvey Mrs. Mary, farmer, Nettlecombe

Jolliffe John, farmer, Dean farm

Jones Robert, carrier

Morris Patience and Isaac, farmers, Whitwell farm

Morris Charles, White horse, and farmer

Moses Bennett, carpenter, Whitwell

Pain Charles, blacksmith

Pain Thomas, blacksmith, Whitwell

Reynolds Charles, tailor and shopkeeper

Reynolds William, farmer, Ash

Russell Eli, farmer, Woolverton farm

Russell Jacob, shopkeeper

Silsbury David, shoemaker

White James, blacksmith

WHITWELL, a parish and village in the East Medina liberty, distant 3 miles W. of Ventnor, and 8 S. by E. of Newport.

The living is a perpetual curacy, annexed to the vicarage of Godshill and the rectory of Niton, joint annual value GBP600, in the gift of Queen's College, Oxford ; the Rev. George Hayton, M.A., is the incumbent. Its church is formed from two ancient chapels, dedicated respectively to the Blessed Virgin Mary and St. Radegund. The manor of Whitwell, formerly a part of Calbourne, was anciently included in the manor of Gatcombe, which is said to have been held by three brothers in the time of Edward the Confessor. The first mention of Whitwell is found in the roll of landowners, under the Countess Isabella de Fortibus, where De Estur, one of the lords of Gatcombe, is said to hold the manor of Whitwell in demesne. The church is supposed to have been built and endowed by De Estur, Lord of Gatcombe.

In the village is a day school.

BERRYL is half a mile E. ; Nettlecombe, 1 mile N.E. ; Ford and Whitcombe, 1 1/2 N.W. ; Down court, 1 1/2 W. ; Holbrooks and Hermitage, 2 N.W. ; Dolcoppice, 2 N.W. ; Kinggate and Berelay, 1 N.W. The population in 1861 was 570 ; and the acreage 1,963.

POSTAL REGULATIONS. - Hannah Jolliffe, receiver. Letters are received by foot messenger through the Godshill office ; arrive at 7.15 a.m. ; dispatched at 5.30 p.m. The nearest money-order office and post town is at Ventnor.

CARRIER TO NEWPORT - Robert Jones, Monday, Wednesday, and Saturday, to the Plough inn.

Village School-Hannah Jolliffe, mistress.