Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for SHALFLEET

SHALFLEET, a village and a parish in the W of the Isle of Wight. The village stands on a rivulet, 1¾ mile S of the Solent, and 3¾ E by S of Yarmouth; and has a post-office under Yarmouth, Isle of Wight. The parish extends to the coast; includes detached portions at Watchingwell and Hulverstone; and contains the hamlets of Newbridge, Brook-Green, and Ningwood-Green. Acres, 6, 623; of which 400 are water. Real property, £6, 127; of which £42 are in fisheries. Pop., 1, 196. Houses, 250. S. manor belonged, at Domesday, to Gosselin Fitz-Azor; passed to the Crown and to W. Montacute, Earl of Salisbury; and was given, by that Earl, to his abbey of Bisham in Berks. Ningwood manor belonged to Baldwin, Earl of Devon; and was given by him to Christchurch-Twynham priory. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Winchester. Value, £210.* Patron, the Lord Chancellor. The church is chiefly late early English; includes portions of Norman; and has a large low ancient tower, surmounted by a shingled spire of 1808. There are chapels for Baptists and Primitive Methodists, and a national school.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a village and a parish"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Shalfleet CP/AP       Hampshire AncC
Place: Shalfleet

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