Godshill Isle of Wight is an Ancient Parish in the county of Hampshire. Whitwell is a chapelry of Godshill Isle of Wight.
Other places in the parish include: Sandford, Week, Roud, Rookley with Week, Rookley, Stenbury, and Appuldurcombe.
Alternative names:
Parish church:
Parish registers begin:
Parish registers: 1678
Bishop’s Transcripts: 1780
Nonconformists include: Bible Christian Methodist, Particular Baptist, and Wesleyan Methodist.
GODSHILL, a village, a parish, and a sub-district in the Isle of Wight. The village stands near the Medina river, 5½ miles SSE of Newport; is a pretty place; and has a post-office under Southampton, and an inn. The parish includes also Appuldurcombe, Stenbury, Roud, Sandford, and Rookley. Acres, 6, 535. Real property, £10, 851. Pop., 1, 215. Houses, 237. The property is much subdivided.
The surface is diversified; comprises much fine scenery; and includes vantage-grounds, one of them the churchyard, commanding brilliant views.
The living is a vicarage, annexed to the rectory of Niton, in the diocese of Winchester. The church is large, cruciform, and partly decorated English; has a western pinnacled tower, in perpendicular English; and contains a rich altar-tomb to Sir J. Leigh of the time of Henry VIII., and several handsome monuments to the Worsley family. T
here are chapels for Wesleyans and Bible Christians, national schools, and charities £39.
Dean Cole, a persecutor in the time of Mary, was a native.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
Godshill Isle of Wight Church and Cottages
England, Hampshire, Godshill (near Newport) – Archives and libraries – Inventories, registers, catalogs ( 1 )
County: Hampshire
Civil Registration District: Isle of Wight
Probate Court: Courts of the Bishop (Episcopal Consistory) and Archdeaconry of Winchester
Diocese: Winchester
Rural Deanery: Pre-1850 – Isle of Wight, Post-1849 – East Medine
Poor Law Union: Isle of Wight
Hundred: East Medina Liberty
Province: Canterbury
