Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for NICHOLAS (St.)-CASTLEHOLD, or St. Nicholas-in-the-Castle

NICHOLAS (St.)-CASTLEHOLD, or St. Nicholas-in-the-Castle, a parish in the Isle of Wight; partly within Newport borough. Post-town, Newport, Isle of Wight. Acres, 410. Real property, £2,006. Pop., 265. Houses, 51. Pop. of the part within Newport borough, 183. Houses, 37. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Winchester. Value, £24. Patron, the Governor of Carisbrooke Castle. The old church was built prior to the Norman conquest; belonged to the abbey of Quarr; and is now a ruin. The present church was built in 1738.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

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Feature Description: "a parish"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Hampshire AncC
Place: Carisbrooke

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