A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
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 easternboundary 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 beless required than at first, in somuch that the averagenumber of its inmates, during three years ending at theclose of 1858, was only 410.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a quondam extra-parochial tract" (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions") |
| Administrative units: | Carisbrooke AP/CP Hampshire AncC |
| Place names: | KINGS PARK | PARKHURST |
| Place: | Parkhurst |
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