Isle of Wight - Extra-Parochial places

"PALANCE-GATE, an extra parochial place in the parish of Northwood, Isle of Wight, county Hants, 2 miles N. of Newport.

PARKHURST FOREST, an extra parochial liberty adjoining the parish of Carisbrooke, Isle of Wight, county Hants, 1 mile N.W. of Newport. It is mentioned in Domesday Survey as Alvington and Pares Regis, and was once covered with wood, but is now principally enclosed. Here are situated the Albany barracks, built in 1779, with accommodation for 3,000 men, the union workhouse for the Isle of Wight, a lunatic asylum, and a large government reformatory prison on the separate system.

QUARR ABBEY, an extra parochial place in the liberty of East Medina, Isle of Wight, county Hants, 2 miles W. of Ryde and 4 N.E. of Newport. It is situated near Wootten Bridge, on a creek which runs from Fishbourne to Bridesford, and has remains of a priory founded by Baldwin de Rivers in 1132 for monks of the Cistercian order.

[From The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland (1868) - transcribed by Colin Hinson ©2003]