Carisbrooke

Carisbrooke
Carisbrooke High Street
Carisbrooke is located in Isle of Wight
Carisbrooke
Carisbrooke
Location within the Isle of Wight
Population3,547 (2011, ward)[1]
OS grid referenceSZ483882
Civil parish
Unitary authority
Ceremonial county
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townNewport
Postcode districtPO30
Dialling code01983
PoliceHampshire and Isle of Wight
FireHampshire and Isle of Wight
AmbulanceIsle of Wight
UK Parliament
List of places
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Isle of Wight
50°41′30″N 1°19′02″W / 50.6917°N 1.3172°W / 50.6917; -1.3172

Carisbrooke is a village on the south-western outskirts of Newport, in the civil parish of Newport and Carisbrooke, Isle of Wight, England.[2] It is best known as the site of Carisbrooke Castle. It also has a medieval parish church, St Mary's Church (overlooking the High Street, with views to the castle), which began as part of a Benedictine priory established by French monks c. 1150. The priory was dissolved by King Henry V of England in 1415, during the Hundred Years' War. In 1907, the church was restored. It has a 14th-century tower rising in five stages with a turret at one corner and a battlemented and pinnacled crown.

A Roman Villa was discovered in the Victorian era on the site of the old vicarage.

  1. ^ "Newport IOW Ward population 2011". Retrieved 18 October 2015.
  2. ^ Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Carisbrooke" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 5 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 337.