7 676 • . (KELLY S • landowneTS are .Sir Charles Sealy ba.rt. of Brooke, who By Local Government Board Order 22,428, dated Marc:b is lord of the manor, Sir Henry Paulet St. John Mild­ 24, 1889, Atherfield Farm was transferred to , may hart. of DogmeN!field Park, Mrs. Disney Leith, of and under the provisiom of the "Divided Parishes Act, N orthcourii, Shorwell, and Roger Cyril Hans .Sloane 1882," Atherfield Green• has also been transferred. Stanley esq. of Romsey, Hants. The soil is clay and Sexton, Frank Cooper. sandy; subsoil, chalky, clay and gravel. The chief Post, M. 0. & T. Office.-Mrs. Cooper, sub-postmistress. crops are wheat, barley, oats and peas; fine crops of LPtters arrive from Newport at 7·5 a.m. & are dis­ 1wedes, turnips and mangolda a.re- also grown. The patched at 5·35; sundays, II a.m area is 2,8-t6 acres of land and Bo of foreshore; net rateable value, £.z,846; the population in 1901 -was 493 Wall Letter Box, Gaggerhill, cleared at 5.10 p.m.; &Un­ in the civil and so6 in the ecclesiastical parish. days, I0.3o a.m LIMERSTlJNE is a hamlet in this parish, a mile east. Coast Guard Station, Henry Kent, station officec & 4 Chilton is a hamlet, partly in Brixton and partly in men parishes, a mile south-we:~t. Parish Reading Room, Mn: Robert Buckett, caretaker At Brighstone Grange there is a station of the Royal National Life Boat Institution, this being a dangerous Elementary School (mixed), built in I835 & afterwards coast. The first boat wa11 placed here in 186o; tht> enlarged for 187 children; average attendance, 37 present boat, the "Brothers Brickwood," wai ·placed here boys, 22 girls & 30 infants; Philip Lempriere, master; in May, 1907, in lieu of the "Joe Jarman,'' and is the Mrs. Lempriere & Miss A. J. Parsons, assistant mia­ tresses 0 fourth stationed here; more than 300 lives hav" bePn • nved by these boat

PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Blake Janet (Mrs.), farmer,Hunny hl Gallop J ames Edward, farmer, Chil- Carver Mrs. Ht>ath cuttage Buckett Rubert, builder, New house; ton farm Cassell John, Limerston house second cox. of life boat Hawker Job, New inn, & fly propr Hall Mrs. Lily grove Buckett Rubert, jun. assistant oversr Jolliffe H. G. & W. J. farmers, Snt­ Hardham .Miss, 'l'he Cot Cooper G. grocer & butcher ton farm Preston Misses, B1·.ighstone cottage Cotton J ames, fisherman & cox. of Parish Reading Room (Mrs. Rober\ Bilver Rev. Ernest Wollaston M.A. life boat Buckett, caretaker) (rector), Rectory Creeth Henry & Son, blacksmiths Reynolds George, apartments, Willea Street Edmund, '!he Lodge Creeth Geo. dairyman, Grange farm 1 Russell Alfred, farmer, Sutton Rev. Frederick Olinthus Creeth James (Mrs.), shopkeeper Scovell Henry Wm. farmer, Gaggerhill M.A., LL.B. Hunninghall Crowder William Edwd.FiveBellsP.H Shatter li-eorge Arthur, carrier Williams Chas. Bridgewater, Rudcote Dore Herbert, fly proprietor Warne Clement (Mrs.), baker COMMERCI.\L. Fisk James Robert, farmer Wavell Harry, market gardener Attrill James, farme1·, Waytes court Fisk John Woodford, miller (water & Way Henry, farmer, farm Baker ueorge, carpenter steam), Brighstone mill

liROOK is a parish and small village, about 10 miles j and part of Brook Green were trana­ south-west-by-v. est from Newport and 5 south-east from ferred to this parish from , March 24, 1889, by Yarmouth, on th~ southern coast of the island, in the Local Government Board Order 22,428. liberty uf West Medina, rural deanery of West Wight, On Brook Green is a station of the Royal National Life archdeaconry of the Isle of Wight and diocese of Win- Boat Institution. chester. The church of St. Mary, destroyed by fire in Sexton, John Hookey. 1863, was rebuilt in r864, at a cost of £1,575, and is an edifice of stone, consisting of chancel, nave, transepts and Post Otlice.-Mrs. Elizabeth Newbery, sub-postmistre8i. a tower with shingled spire containing B tubular bells: Letters are received through Newport at 8.30 a.m.; the windows are stained: the pulpit and font, of marble, ·dispatched at 5-5 p.m.; sundays, delivery 8.3o a.m. were the gift of the late Miss Bowerman, and the reredos & dispatch ro.rs a.m. Brighstone, 2~ miles distant, was presented by the family of the Rev. R. Fenwick, a is the nearest telegraph & money order office former rector: there are I20 sittings. The register dates Wall Letter Box, near the rectory, cleared 4·50 p.m.; 10 10 from the year 1653. The living is a rectory, net yearly sundays, · a.m Coast Guard Station, Esau Handley, chief boatman in value £ 165, in the gift of Sir Charles Seely bart. and charge, & men held since 1909 by the Rev. Cou.rtney Albert Shaw M.A. 5 of Jesus College, Oxford. Brook House is the seat of Elementary School (mixed), Hulverstone, for the parishe1 Sir Charles Seely hart. D.L., J.P. who is lord of the of Brook & Mottistone; the building, formerly a barn, manor and principal landowner; the house stands in was converted into a school about 18Jo, & enlarged in grounds of 43 acres. The soil is sandy; subsoil, loamy. 18g5, for 160 children; average attendance, 67; new The chief crops are wheat, barley, oats and peas. The cla;ss room11 & a playground were added in 1895 at tiha area is 991 acres of arable, pasture and down land and expense of Sir Charles Seely bart. ; Miss Clara Reid. 93 of foreshore; rateable value, £1,395; the population mistress in 1901 was 221 in the civil and 172 in the ecclesiastical Carriers to Newport. Roland Hayter, sat.; Mrs. Mary parish. ] Millmore, every day (thurs. & sun. excepted) Seely Sir Charles hart. D.L., J.P. Cook Frank, fishing pot & basket ma Jolmson Harriet (Mrs.), laundress Brook house Cook John, fisherman & second cox. ! Millmore Mary (Mrs.), carrier Shaw Rev. Courtney Albert M.A. of life boat i Newbury Hy. carpenter & wheelwrigh~ (rector) Hayter Robert, apartments, Brook vil 1 Parish Reading Room (Robert Hay- COMMERCIAL. Hayter Roland, carrier I ter, caretaker) Brown Lucy (Mrs.), farmer, Duns- Hayter Wm. apartments, Chine view I Priddle Frank, dairyman, Hulverstne bury & Compton farms Hookey James, blacksmith Tribbick William, head gardener to lJryson .A.ndrew, farm bailiff to Sir Hookey Thomas Wm. dairy farmer , Sir Charles Seely bart. D.L., J.P Charles Seely bart. Brook farm Jacobs Benjamin, fisherman & cox.! Wheeler James, dairyman Cogger Jas. Wm. aparts. Chine villa of life boat i White Fredk. Sun inn, Hulverstone

CAL:BOURNE is a parish and village with a sta~ion the parish. Swainston, the residence of Sir Edmund I mile north from the village on the Newport, Yarmouth Charles Simeon hart. is a mansion of stone in the Italian and Freshwater railway, al;Jout 5 miles west-by-south style, delightfully situated in a park of 75 acres; West- • from Newport and 5 south-east from Yarmouth, in the over, the property of Lady Margaret Heytesbury a.nd West Medina liberty, rural deanery of West Wight, arch- occupied by Mrs. Moulton-Barrett, is a modern residence deaconry of the Isle of Wight and diocese of Winchester. standing in a park of 30 acres, on a gentle declivity al This parish includes the ancient chapelry and borough of the foot of the Downs. Sir Edmund Charlea Ne-w-town. The Caul Bourne rises in the parish. The 8imeon hart. is lord of the manor and principal land­ church of All Saints is a building of stone in the Norman owner. The chief crops are wheat, barley, oats, peaa and Gothic styles, and consists of chancel, nave, south and beans. The parish (including Newtown) comprises aisle, north transept, north and west porches and a 6,_142 acres of clay and chalky soil, which is highly tower : the church was thoroughly restored in 1842, at a cultivated, and 8 of water, 24 of tidal water and 496 of cost of £2,55o, and affords 264 sittings. The register foreshore; rateable value, £4,915; the pDpnlation iD date~ from. the year 1561. The living- is a rectory. net 1901 was 747, including part of NEWTOWN, which 11'111 yearlJ' valne £360, with residence aHd Br acres of glebe, transferred to this parish from Shalfleet, March 24o in the gift of the Bishop of Winchester, and ht>ld !!ince 188q, 101" civil purposes, and 426 in the ecclesiastical r~j'"j bv the RRv. Joh:Q... Vicars M. A. of Christ's College, parish.