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Isle of Wight Estates

From The Muniment Room, a resource for social history, family history, and local history.

FLEMING ESTATE: STONEHAM ESTATES • ISLE OF WIGHT ESTATES • ROMSEY ESTATES • CHILWORTH ESTATE

Manor of Binstead • Binstead village • Manor of Quarr & Newnham • Fish House • Wootton Bridge & Kite Hill • Havenstreet

Arreton • Manor of Heasley • Downend Estate • Downend hamlet • Manor of Combley

‘The whole was part of the possessions of the Abbey of Quarr, the property of which abbey is now vested in Mr. Fleming, and forms one of the most beautiful, finest, and compact estates in the kingdom, beginning from the sea, near the abbey ruins, and ending at Hasely Farm, in the parish of Arreton, which includes the space of more than six miles.’ -Henry Penruddocke Wyndham, 1794

Detail of Isle of Wight Estates area from: Map of Hampshire surveyed by Thomas Milne, published by William Faden, 1791

Detail of Isle of Wight Estates area from: Map of Hampshire surveyed by Isaac Taylor, engraved by R Benning, published 1759.

Detail from A General Plan and Survey of Several Farms called Cumbley, Duxmoor and Heasley, in the Isle of Wight and County of Hants, Belonging to John Flemming Esq, 1771; surveyed by George Salmon

The Isle of Wight Estates were part of the Fleming Estate.

The estates at Binstead, Wootton Bridge, Quarr Abbey, Fishbourne, Havenstreet, Downend, and Arreton were purchased by Sir Thomas Fleming in 1609, and included the manors of Heasley, Combley, Quarr and Newnham, Binstead, Duxmore and Rackland - an area of some 4,000 acres which remained largely intact until its dispersal at auction in 1956.

Leopards and Speeds at Havenstreet were acquired around 1841, and Pondcast and Downers around 1846, consolidating the Isle of Wight Estates.

In the 17th century, the Fleming estates on the Island were very extensive, comprising also the manors of Godshill and Freshwater; the lease of the Carisbrooke Priory estate from the Crown; the rectories of Godshill, Carisbrooke, and Shalfleet, and vicarage of Arreton; Shalflet Wood in Whippingham; land at Northwood; premises in Newport, including some thirty properties of the Newport Chantry; and lands in Kingston and Shorwell.

Heasley was the Island home of Sir Thomas Fleming the younger (1564-1623); later members of the family lived at picturesque Binstead Cottage and Binstead Lodge. The northern portion of Quarr manor, the Quarr Abbey Estate, was sold in 1858. The Victorian dower house, Binstead House, was sold in 1925.