Newchurch, Isle of Wight

Newchurch
Hampshire
Newchurch All Saints' Church & Pointer Inn
Location
Grid reference:	SZ560852
Location:	50°39’52"N, 1°12’30"W
Data
Post town:	Sandown
Postcode:	PO36
Dialling code:	01983
Local Government
Council:	Isle of Wight
Parliamentary constituency:	Isle of Wight

Newchurch is a village on the Isle of Wight, Hampshire. It is located between Sandown and Newport in the south-east of the island.

This was once a vast parish, shrunk though after the great resort towns of the island's south-east coast grew rapidly and were peeled off.

The parish church is All Saints. There is one pub, "The Pointer Inn" and a sub-post office.

History

Newchurch obtained its name from the new church built in 1087 by the Norman monks of Lyra. The Newchurch Parish for many centuries stretched from the north to south coasts of the Island. By the early Nineteenth Century the growing resort towns of Ventnor and Ryde were included within Newchurch's boundaries. The present day parish includes Newchurch Village, Apse Heath, Winford, Whiteley Bank, Alverstone, Alverstone Garden Village, Queen's Bower, Princelett and Mersley.

In 1574, Anthony Dillington, owner of the Knighton Gorges Manor in Newchurch, wrote to his son Robert in 1574 that, "This is the very Garden of England, and we be privileged to work in it as Husbandmen......."

Between 1875 and 1956 Newchurch had a railway station.

Outside links

("Wikimedia Commons" has material about Newchurch, Isle of Wight)

• Newchurch Community