In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Parkhurst like this:
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 reformat ...
ory, 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.
Parkhurst through time
Parkhurst is now part of the Isle of Wight district. Click here for graphs and data of how the Isle of Wight has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Parkhurst itself, go to Units and Statistics.
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Parkhurst, in The the Isle of Wight and Hampshire | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/21584
Date accessed: 25th April 2024
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