The Isle of Wight : its history, topography and antiquities : with notes upon its principal seats, churches, manoral houses, legendary and poetical associations, geology and picturesque localities ... / by W. H. Davenport Adams.

  • William Henry Davenport Adams
Date:
1884
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Credit: The Isle of Wight : its history, topography and antiquities : with notes upon its principal seats, churches, manoral houses, legendary and poetical associations, geology and picturesque localities ... / by W. H. Davenport Adams. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    POSTAL ARRANGEMENTS. Box Closes. A.M. P.M. Ryde 6.0, 8.35, 11.50 12.30, 3.30, 8.30 Newport . COAVES Sandown .. Shanklin , 8.55 9.15 12.0 9.10, 12.40.. Ventxor 11. A.M. P.J[. 7.0 6.30 12.20,7.15 7.0 1.30 12.0,1.0,7.30 7.0 1.0 8.0 7.0 2.0 7.30 7.0 2.15 6.30 7.0 2.30 BANKS. S,YDE—Capital and Counties Bank. Na- tional Provincial Bank of England. Newport — Capital and Counties Bank. London and County Bank. National Provincial Bank of England. San DOWN—Capital and Counties Bank. CowES—Capital and Counties Bank. Lon- don and County Bank. Ventnor — Capital and Counties Bank. National Provincial Bank of England. Shanklin—Capital and Counties Bank. DIRECTORY To the Seats of the Gentry, Interesting Localities, etc. Corrected up to 1882. T, ARRETON. [9 miles from Cowes, 4 miles from Newport, 8 miles from Eyde, 7 miles from Ventnor, 6 miles from Sandown, and 10 miles from Brighstone.] Church, partly Norman, partly Early Eng- lish ; brasses, monuments, etc. (p. 245). Arreton Manor House, date James I. (F. Ptoach, Esq.), near the Church. Parsonage, near the Church (Eev. J. G. Packer). Standen, East, near the foot of St. George's Down, 3 miles north-west; Barrows, on the Down ; cottage of Dairyman's Daughter; Haseley (p. 115), 3 miles south-east, at the foot of Shepherd's Lane. IT. BEMBRIDGE. [16 miles from Cowes, 11 miles from New- port, 8 miles from P^yde, 10 miles from Ventnor, 4 miles from Sandown, 24 miles from Brighstone.] Church, Early English (p. 248). Bembridge Parsonage (Eev. Canon Le Mesurier), in Bembridge Street. East Cliff (Earl Fitzwilliam). Bembridge Down, White Cliff Bay (fossils), and Woolverton (Wulfere's Town), 3 miles south-west. III. BINSTEAD. [ll miles from Cowes, 6 miles from New- port, 1 mile from Pyde, 13 miles from Ventnor, 7 miles from Sandown, 15 miles from Brighstone.] Church, Early English; Norman gateway, and The Idol (p. 248). Binstead Cottage (Sir Charles Locock). West View (Col. Hill). Binstead Rectory (Rev. G. Garland), near the Church. Kite Hill, on the highroad, near Wbotton. Quarr House (Lady Cochrane), beyond Quarr Abbey, near Fishhouse. Quarries for fossils and fresh-water shells ; ruins of Quarr Abbey, about 1 mile west. Stonelands (Lieut.-Gen. A. Beecher). Quarr Wood Lodge (Rev. T. V. Tippinge). IV. BONCHURCH. [16 miles from Cowes, 11 miles from Ryde, 11 miles from Newport, 1 mile from Ventnor, 5 miles from Sandown, 14 miles from Brighstone.] Old Church, Norman; New Church, Nor- man; graves of Adams and Sterling (p. 249). East Dene (J. Harry Snowdon, Esq.), on the road to the Old Church. Hawthorndene (Rev. C. Cubitt).