INDEX 



To THE Villages, Farms, Seats, Woods, &c., mentioned in this Work 

 AS Stations fob Plants; with their Bearings and Distance from 

 THE nearest Market Town or place of note.* 



The distances are given, as measured off upon the map, from point to point, 

 excepting betwixt the principal towns and parochial villages, where they are 

 noted by current compulation along the high roads. The main object of this 

 index being to facilitate the finding of places marked on the map which accom- 

 panies the work, rigid exactness in the several bearings and distances is not aimed 

 at or required ; a coincidence within half a point in the former case, and a quarter 

 of a mile in the latter, being held a sufficiently close approximation to the truth 

 for all practical purposes. 



Abbreviations. — B. borough ; Br. bridge; Ch. churchf; E. M. East Medina ; 

 F. farm ; Gr. great; H. hamlet |; Hd. head; Ho. house, manorial residence or 

 seat; Lit. little; m. mile; Pt. point; T. town, not corporate; V. village, con- 

 taining the parish church; B. river; W. M. West. Medina. 



Adgestone H. E. M. I ra. S.W. by 



W. Brading 

 Afton F. W. M. 2 m. S. Yarmouth 



Afton Ho. IJ m. S. by W. Yarmouth 



Down. E. Freshwater Bay 



AldermoorF. E. M. Um. S.W.by 



S. Ryde 



Heath, i m. E. Aid. F. 



* The bearings are of course to be understood as taken with reference to the 

 true or terrestrial meridian laid down on the map, not to the magnetic meridian of 

 the island, which is constantly undergoing alteration. 



f In measuring the distance of woods, headlands, bays, or of small inhabited 

 places, as hamlets or farms, from the nearest town or village, the parish church 

 (indicated in the map by a minute cross) has in nearly every instance been taken 

 as a point of departure, because such places are in general too straggling or irre- 

 gular to serve as a definite mark ; nor would it be possible to fix on any centre 

 from which to set out in laying down the intervals, excepting in one or two 

 instances, as that of Newport for example, the outline of which town is suffi- 

 ciently regular to give a middle point with tolerable exactness. Where the 

 parish church stands apart from the place it takes its name from, its site is 

 marked in the map, with the word Church added in full, in small Roman letters, 

 and so written in the Topographical Index. In all other cases the position of 

 the church is shown by the conventional sign of a cross only, and the abbreviation 

 Ch. follows the name of the nearest place to the locality sought for in the Index. 

 In measuring off woods, bays, downs, or other objeqts having an extended sur- 

 face, the centre of their areas, as nearly as can be ascertained, has mostly been 

 assumed as the radial terminus of the distance required. 



I By the term Hamlet it is intended to designate any group or collection of 



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