Parkhurst Forest (Isle of Wight) Hampshire Family History Guide

Parkhurst Forest (Isle of Wight) is an extra-parochial place.

Alternative names: Parkhurst

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Nonconformists include:

Adjacent Parishes

• Northwood
• Carisbrooke

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

PARKHURST, a quondam extra-parochial tract in Carisbrooke parish, Isle of Wight; 1¾ mile N W by N of Newport. It was known, at Domesday, as the King’s Park; was long a royal hunting-ground; and long comprised about 3,000 acres, but is now very much curtailed.

Parkhurst juvenile reformatory, stands on the eastern boundary of the forest, and partly within Carisbrooke parish; was formed out of the hospital of Albany barracks, in 1838; and had originally 720 cells, which, for a time, were all filled; but, in consequence of the establishment of reformatories in other parts of England, came to be less required than at first, in so much that the average number of its inmates, during three years ending at the close of 1858, was only 410.

Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].

Parish Records

FamilySearch

England, Hampshire, Parkhurst – Church records ( 1 )
Parish registers for Parkhurst Garrison, 1855-1956
Author: Church of England. Chapelry of Parkhurst Garrison (Hampshire)

England, Hampshire, Parkhurst – Correctional institutions ( 1 )
Parkhurst Prison registers, accession 1829 PRO WA
Author: Hitchins, Ronda; Western Australian Genealogical Society. Convict Historical and Research Group

Administration

• County: Hampshire
• Civil Registration District: Isle of Wight
• Probate Court: Search the courts of the surrounding parishes
• Diocese: Not Applicable
• Rural Deanery: Not Applicable
• Poor Law Union: Isle of Wight
• Hundred: West Medina Liberty
• Province: Canterbury