Binstead village
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| ‘Within two miles of Ryde, a little distance from the Newport road, near the water's edge, is the village of Binstead; charmingly situated, and surrounded by woods. There is something very beautiful in the appearance of the common ... A few neat cottages surround this spot, which is capable of much improvement. In the bosom of this sequestered village, our attention is arrested by the parsonage [Binstead Cottage], which cannot fail to impress itself on the recollection, as one of the characteristic beauties of the island. ’ -William Bernard Cooke, 1813 |
Binstead village was at Binstead on the Isle of Wight Estates.
In the early 19th century, it was a small rural community, with farmhouses adjoining the main road, and a hamlet comprising a cluster of houses and cottages at Binstead Pits. After the Fleming's Estate Acts and the construction of the new road in the mid 1800s, the landscape was reconfigured and a new village, effectively, grew up along the main road.
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Gazetteer from 1817 Survey
The 1817 Survey lists the tenants for nearly all the properties at Binstead village; unusually, cottagers at Binstead were mostly renting directly from the Estate, rather than subletting from tenant farmers. Most of these families were still occupying the same properties twenty-five years later in the 1841 census.
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