In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Gatcombe like this:
GATCOMBE, a parish in the Isle of Wight; on the river Medina, 3 miles S by W of Newport. - Post town, Newport, Isle of Wight. Acres, 1, 392. Real property, £2, 713. Pop., 201. Houses, 40. The property is divided among a few. The manor belonged, from the time of King John till a recent date, to the Worsleys; and passed to Lord Ashburton. ...
Gatcombe House was built, in 1750, by one of the last of the Worsleys; and is now the seat of Mrs. Bidgood. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Winchester. Value, £646.* Patron, the University of Oxford. The church is partly early English, partly late Tudor; has a pinnacled tower; contains a curious wooden effigies of a knight; and is good. There are a Wesleyan chapel, and an endowed school with £9.
Gatcombe through time
Gatcombe 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 Gatcombe itself, go to Units and Statistics.
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Gatcombe, in The the Isle of Wight and Hampshire | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/4762
Date accessed: 19th April 2024
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