Shanklin (Isle of Wight) Hampshire Family History Guide
Shanklin (Isle of Wight) is a chapelry of Bonchurch Ancient Parish in Hampshire.
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Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1724
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1787
Nonconformists include: Bible Christian Methodist and Independent/Congregational.
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The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
SHANKLIN, a village and a parish in the S E of the Isle of Wight. The village stands in a vale, about 300 feet above sea-level, near the coast and near the Isle of Wight railway, 8 miles S by W of Ryde; was known, at Domesday, as Senchiz; was, till recently, a very lovely collection of retired cottages; is now a fashionable watering-place, with shops, villas, and terraces; enjoys a remarkably mild climate and very picturesque environs; and has a head post-office, designated Shanklin, Isle of Wight, a r. station with telegraph, three good hotels, numerous lodging-houses, news-rooms, two churches, Independent and Bible Christian chapels, and a national school.
The old church is partly of the 12th century; and includes transepts, erected in 1859. The new church was built in 1868. The parish comprises 672 acres of land, and 130 of water. Real property, £3, 335. Pop. in 1851, 355; in 1861, 479. Houses, 96. The manor belonged, at Domesday, to Gosselin Fitz-Azor; and passed to the family of De Lisle. The manor-house stands to the NE of the church, and is a heavy-corniced and high-peaked building of the early part oflast century. The cottage inhabited by the authoress known as Home Lee is not far from the manor-house.
S. down flanks the S side of the village vale; has often been asserted to be a growing-hill, as to both height and bulk; and is alleged to have attained an increased height of at least 100 feet since the former part of last century. S. chine flanks the shore immediately E of the village; is a romantic chasm, about 180 feet wide and 270 feet deep at the mouth, and about ½ a mile long; has rocky ledgy sides, covered with brushwood; and is traversed by a streamlet, wild and frolicsome, and making a fall of about 30 feet.
The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Winchester. Value, £47. Patron, F. W. Popham, Esq.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
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Administration
- 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