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Shalfleet Manor House
Shalfleet is a village and civil parish on the Isle of Wight. it is located between Yarmouth, Isle of Wight, Yarmouth and Newport, Isle of Wight, Newport in the northwest of the island. Background The name "Shalfleet" means "shallow stream". The stream in this case is the stream passing through the village, the Caul Bourne. It was recorded as "Aet Scealdan Fleote" in the 838. In 1086, in the Domesday Book, Shalfleet was called "Selceeflet". In Black's Guides, Adam and Charles Black's guide book to the area published in 1870, there is a note that Shalfleet is "not too lively". It still has only one street with a traffic light at each end. Church of St. Michael the Archangel, Shalfleet was dedicated to Michael (archangel), St. Michael the Archangel in 1964. The Baptist church in the village of Wellow, Isle of Wight, Wellow, was founded in 1801. There were several Methodist churches as well, which have all closed. Shalfleet had a Calbourne & Shalfleet railway station, railway stati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Isle Of Wight
The Isle of Wight (Help:IPA/English, /waɪt/ Help:Pronunciation respelling key, ''WYTE'') is an island off the south coast of England which, together with its surrounding uninhabited islets and Skerry, skerries, is also a ceremonial county. The county is bordered by Hampshire across the Solent strait to the north, and is otherwise surrounded by the English Channel. Its largest settlement is Ryde, and the administrative centre is Newport, Isle of Wight, Newport. Wight has a land area of and had a population of 140,794 in 2022, making it the List of islands of England#Largest islands, largest and List of islands of England#Most populous islands, second-most populous English island. The island is largely rural, with the largest settlements primarily on the coast. These include Ryde in the north-east, Shanklin and Sandown in the south-east, and the large villages of Totland and Freshwater, Isle of Wight, Freshwater in the west. Newport is located inland at the point at which the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Archangel
Archangels () are the second lowest rank of angel in the Catholic hierarchy of angels, based on and put forward by Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite in the 5th or 6th century in his book ''De Coelesti Hierarchia'' (''On the Celestial Hierarchy''). The Bible itself uses the term “archangel” two times referring to the angel Michael only in the New Testament. The Bible does not mention a particular hierarchy of angels in any detail aside from this. The word is usually associated with the Abrahamic religions and many offshoots they are historically associated with. ''Archangel'' is derived from Ancient Greek, Greek (), with the Greek prefix meaning 'chief'. In Catholic theology, archangels constitute the second-lowest rank of angel; much of modernized imaging of Archangels as we have today likely stems from the etymology of their name, as well as their presentation in John Milton's ''Paradise Lost''. In many offshoots of Judaism, with the oldest text coming from Enoch 1, the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Shalfleet
Shalfleet is a village and civil parish on the Isle of Wight. it is located between Yarmouth and Newport in the northwest of the island. Background The name "Shalfleet" means "shallow stream". The stream in this case is the stream passing through the village, the Caul Bourne. It was recorded as "Aet Scealdan Fleote" in the 838. In 1086, in the Domesday Book, Shalfleet was called "Selceeflet". In Adam and Charles Black's guide book to the area published in 1870, there is a note that Shalfleet is "not too lively". It still has only one street with a traffic light at each end. Church of St. Michael the Archangel, Shalfleet was dedicated to St. Michael the Archangel in 1964. The Baptist church in the village of Wellow, was founded in 1801. There were several Methodist churches as well, which have all closed. Shalfleet had a railway station, shared with Calbourne, that was closed in 1953 when the line from Newport to Freshwater ceased operating. The New Inn pub dates from 1743. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Freshwater, Isle Of Wight
Freshwater is a large village and civil parishes in England, civil parish at the western end of the Isle of Wight, England. The southern, coastal part of the village is Freshwater Bay, named for the adjacent small cove. Freshwater sits at the western end of the region known as the Back of the Wight or the West Wight, a popular tourist area. Freshwater is close to steep Chalk Formation, chalk cliffs. It was the birthplace of physicist Robert Hooke and was the home of Poet Laureate Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson, Alfred Lord Tennyson. Landmarks Freshwater is famous for its geology and coastal rock formations that have resulted from centuries of coastal erosion. Arch Rock was a well-known local landmark that collapsed on 25 October 1992. The neighbouring Stag Rock is so named because supposedly a stag leapt to the rock from the cliff to escape during a hunt. Another huge slab fell off the cliff face in 1968, and is now known as the Mermaid Rock. Immediately behin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Southern Vectis
Southern Vectis is a bus operator on the Isle of Wight, founded in 1921 as Dodson and Campbell. It became the Vectis Bus Company in 1923. The company was purchased by Southern Railway before being nationalised in 1969. In 1987, the company was re-privatised, and in July 2005, it became a subsidiary of Go-Ahead Group. History 1921–1928 In 1921 in Cowes, the company was founded as Dodson & Campbell. In 1923, it was renamed the Vectis Bus Company. Vectis was the Roman name for the Isle of Wight. The buses were built by the London bus body builder, Christopher Dodson. 1929–1985 In 1929, the company was purchased by Southern Railway and incorporated as the Southern Vectis Omnibus Company Limited.Companies House extract company no 241973 The Southern Vectis Omnibus Company Limited I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Durotriges
The Durotriges were one of the Celtic tribes living in British Iron Age, Britain prior to the Roman invasion of Britain, Roman invasion. The tribe lived in modern Dorset, south Wiltshire, south Somerset and Devon east of the River Axe (Lyme Bay), River Axe and the discovery of an Iron Age hoard in 2009 at Shalfleet, Isle of Wight gives evidence that they may also have lived in the western half of the island. There is growing evidence to suggest that women held relatively high status in the tribe due to several factors including: high status grave goods found predominantly in female graves and the society being Matrilocal residence, matrilocal. After the Roman conquest, their main ''civitates'', or settlement-centred administrative units, were Durnovaria (modern Dorchester, Dorset, Dorchester, "the probable original capital") and Lindinis (modern Ilchester, "whose former, unknown status was thereby enhanced"). Their territory was bordered to the west by the Dumnonii; and to the east ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Hamstead Manor
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Hamstead may refer to: * Hamstead, Isle of Wight * Hamstead, West Midlands ** Hamstead Colliery ** Hamstead railway station * Hamstead Marshall, Berkshire, England ** Hamstead Lock, on the Kennet and Avon Canal See also * Hampstead (other) * Hempstead (other) *Homestead (other) Homestead may refer to: *Homestead (building), a farmhouse and its adjacent outbuildings; by extension, it can mean any small cluster of houses * Nguni homestead, a cluster of houses inhabited by a single extended family, typically with a kraal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Ningwood Manor
Ningwood is a village on the Isle of Wight. It is on several lanes about three miles east of Yarmouth in the northwest of the island. In the 2011 Census the population of the village was included in the civil parish of Shalfleet. History Name Ningwood lies at the meeting point of an area of woodland to the north and a long-established area of arable and livestock farms to the south. Its name is of Anglo-Saxon origin and means "andtaken from the wood". In the Domesday book of 1086 it was referred to as Lenimcode, which has the same meaning, but in the older Celtic language, Brythonic. Medieval history In 1086, Ningwood appeared in the Domesday book as part of the Hundred of Hemreswel, one of three hundreds of the Isle of Wight. Hemsreswel included the settlements of Yarmouth, Lenimcode, and Soet. At the time, Ningwood was held directly from King William the Conqueror by a person called Gerin. By 1100, Ningwood had passed into the ownership of the king of England and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Shalfleet Manor House
Shalfleet is a village and civil parish on the Isle of Wight. it is located between Yarmouth, Isle of Wight, Yarmouth and Newport, Isle of Wight, Newport in the northwest of the island. Background The name "Shalfleet" means "shallow stream". The stream in this case is the stream passing through the village, the Caul Bourne. It was recorded as "Aet Scealdan Fleote" in the 838. In 1086, in the Domesday Book, Shalfleet was called "Selceeflet". In Black's Guides, Adam and Charles Black's guide book to the area published in 1870, there is a note that Shalfleet is "not too lively". It still has only one street with a traffic light at each end. Church of St. Michael the Archangel, Shalfleet was dedicated to Michael (archangel), St. Michael the Archangel in 1964. The Baptist church in the village of Wellow, Isle of Wight, Wellow, was founded in 1801. There were several Methodist churches as well, which have all closed. Shalfleet had a Calbourne & Shalfleet railway station, railway stati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Calbourne & Shalfleet Railway Station
Calbourne and Shalfleet railway station, was an intermediate station of the Freshwater, Yarmouth and Newport Railway, incorporated in 1860,Bennett,A "Southern Holiday Lines in Hampshire and the Isle of Wight": Cheltenham, Runpast 1994 opened over a ten-month period between 1888 and 1889 and closed 65 years later.Hay,P "Steaming Through the Isle Of Wight": Midhurst,Middleton, 1988 Situated between the two villages Pomeroy, C,A "Isle Of Wight Railways, Then and Now": Oxford,Past & Present Publishing, 1993, and serving a moderately populous rural area Maycock,R.J/Silsbury,R: The Freshwater, Yarmouth and Newport Railway: Usk, Oakwood, 2003 it was a "reasonably" successful stationBritton,A "Once upon a line (Vol 4)": Oxford, OPC, 1994 on an ultimately unprofitable line. Originally the station had a cottage style front but after absorption by the Southern a corrugated building from the acrimonious-split era was relocated to the site. The station itself, situated on the dow ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Wellow, Isle Of Wight
Wellow is a village in the civil parish of Shalfleet, on the Isle of Wight, England. It is located about two miles east of Yarmouth, Isle of Wight, Yarmouth in the northwest of the island. The name is believed to be of Jutes, Jutish origin. Recently a proposal to erect a wind farm was rejected after a high-profile protest campaign. Located within Wellow are a small chapel, post office, vineyard and several farms including Mattingley and Manor Farm. The Hamstead trail runs through Wellow. Transport Public transport is provided by buses on Southern Vectis route 7. Places of interest The Headquarters of West Wight Alpacas is situated in Wellow. The Wellow Literary Institute is over 100 years old; originally created as a library for local people it had lain empty for some years in the 1980s until local people heard of plans to demolish it and it is now a community hall with many local events. Notable people References Villages on the Isle of Wight Shalfleet {{Isleo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |