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.

  • Adams, W. H. Davenport (William Henry Davenport), 1828-1891.
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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    Puckpool ( ), below St. Clare. Saxonbury Lodge, at the top of West Street. Sea View House (Thomas Le Marchant, Esq.), facing the sea. Stonelands (Lieut.-Gen. A. Beecher), north of Ryde. Stone Pitts (Miss Brigstocke), on the Bin- stead Road. Thornbury House (Mrs. Kirkpatrick), in Spencer Road. Uplands (C. Payne, Esq.), above Spring Vale. Westbrook (Pakenham Mahon, Esq.), on the road from St. John's to Sea View. Westridge (J. Young, Esq.), 2 miles from Ryde, on cross road leading to Sea View. Westfield (Sir Spencer Clifford, Bart.), Spencer Road. Woodlands (Hon. Col. Calthorpe, J.P.), on the road from St. John's to Sea View. For interesting localities near Ryde, see pp. 159-178. XXII. SANDOWN. [15 miles from Cowes, 10 miles from New- port, 6 miles from Ryde, 6 miles from Ventnor, 12 miles from Blackgang, 22 miles from Alum Bay, and 12 miles from Brighstone. ] For Church, see p. 279. Vicarage. Cliff Villa, above the Bay. Culver Lodge. Beaufront (Mrs. Loveland). Guadaloupe (Mr. Cartaret). The Cottage (Rev. C. Bury). Royal Heath Villa (Misses Wellings), on the main road. New Pier, Shanklin Chine, 3 miles south; Roman villa, li mile; Brading, 2-J miles north; Yaverland, Bembridge Down, ^Miitecliff Bay, etc. XXIII. SHALFLEET. [11 miles from Cowes, 6 miles from New- port, 1.3 miles from Ryde, 16 miles from Ventnor, 14 miles from Sandown, 7h miles from Brighstone.] Church, Norman and Early English (Rev. W. F. Fisher); monumental slab, etc. Newtown Church (Rev. H. R. Venn). Hampstead Hill, 2 miles north-west; Wai-- lands (or Walleran's), half a mile south- west; Ningwood, nearly 2 miles west; Newtown, 2 miles north-east; Calbourne, 2h miles south. XXIV. SHANKLIN. [15 miles from Cowes, 10 miles from New- port, 9 miles from Ryde, 3A- miles from Ventnor, 2i- miles from Sandown, 16 miles from Brighstone.] Church, Early English (p. 281). St. Saviour's and St. Paul's, new churches. Warren Villa (Dowager-Lady Hatherton). Landguard (Col. F. H. Atherley, J.P.). Glenbrook (J. Borrodaile, Esq.). Whitwell Mead (Miss Harriet Parr). Tower Cottage (Miss Cameron). Rosecliff House (C. Freere, Esq.). Lansdowne House (Lady Anson). West Hill (Mrs. Scaramanga). Old Manor House (F. White Popham, Esq.). Beechwood (Captain Hargrove). Rectory (Rev. W. B. Cole). Parsonage (Rev. C. Burland, A.M.). Shanklin Chine and Down; Sandown Bay; Luccombe Chine, 1^ mile; America, woods, 2 miles north-west. XXV, SHORWELL. [10 miles from Cowes, 5 miles from New- port, 12 miles from Ryde, 11 miles from Ventnor, 10 miles from Sandown, 2 miles from Brighstone.] Church, Early English; monument, fresco, etc. (p. 281). Northcourt (Sir H. P. Gordon, Bart.), at the Newport entrance to the village. Vicarage (Rev. R. S. Wilson), behind the Church. Atherfield Point, 3 miles south; Gatcombe, 2 miles north-west; Woolverton, manor house, three-quarters of a mile south- west; Westcourt, manor house, half a mile west; Brighstone Down. XXVI. ST. LAWRENCE. [16 miles from Cowes, 11 miles from New- port, 14 miles from Ryde, 2 miles from Ventnor, 8 miles from Sandown, 11 miles from Brighstone.] Church, Norman (p. 268). St. Lawrence Cottage (Countess-Dowager of Yarborough). Cottage (Hon. Mrs. Dudley Pelham). Woolverton, ruins of chapel (house?), half a mile south; the Undcrcliff to Black- gang; St. Boniface Down; Ventnor and Luccombe; Pelham Woods,