Newchurch, Hampshire

Description
Newchurch, a village and a parish in the Isle of Wight, The village stands adjacent to the river Yar, 4 1/2 miles SE by E of Newport, and has a station on the Isle of Wight Central railway, 88 miles from London. It is approached on one side by a road cut through an almost precipitous ridge, consists chiefly of one clean and pretty street of cottages, and has a post office under Sandown (R.S.O.) ; money order and telegraph office, Sandown. The surface of the parish is very diversified, and shares largely in the beauties and other attractions of the island. Acreage, 4621; population,1526. The living is a vicarage, united with that of Wroxall, in the diocese of Winchester; net value, £240 with residence. The church stands on the brink of a steep wooded bank; was given by William Fitz-Osborne, soon after the Conquest, to his abbey of Lire; retains few marks of antiquity, and none of the Norman age, yet shows some Early English lancets, and has interiorly some rude Decorated arcades; is plain and cruciform, with a wooden SW tower; contains in the N transept, memorials of the Dillingtons; and was restored in 1883. There are Congregational and Wesleyan chapels.