Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for OAKFIELD

OAKFIELD, a chapelry in St. Helens parish, Isle of Wight; on the N E coast, in the S E vicinity of Ryde. It was constituted in 1844; and its post town is Ryde. Pop., 1, 547. Houses, 292. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Winchester. Value, £100.* Patron, the Incumbent of St. Helens.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a chapelry"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: St Helens AP/CP       Hampshire AncC
Place: Oakfield

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