Steephill Manor is a British manor house on the

Isle of Wight The Isle of Wight ( ) is a county in the English Channel, off the coast of Hampshire, from which it is separated by the Solent. It is the largest and second-most populous island of England. Referred to as 'The Island' by residents, the Isle of ...

, situated within the Newchurch parish. The manor was a holding of the Lisle family towards the end of the 13th century, until it was sold by the Hills to John Hambrough, who erected Steephill Castle in 1835, which has since been demolished. The house occupies the site of a cottage where

Hans Stanley Hans Stanley, PC (23 September 1721 – 12 January 1780) was a British diplomat and politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1743 and 1780. Early life Stanley was christened on 9 October 1721 at St Martin-in-the-Fields, London. He wa ...

lived during his governorship of the island. As of 1912 it belonged to a Mr. John Morgan Richards.

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''This article includes text incorporated from William Page's "A History of the County of Hampshire: Volume 5 (1912)", a publication now in the public domain'' {{coord missing, Isle of Wight Country houses on the Isle of Wight Manor houses in England