Place:Whippingham, Isle of Wight, England

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Whippingham is a village and civil parish on the Isle of Wight, England. The population of the civil parish at the 2011 UK census was 787. It is located 2 kilometres (1.2 mi) south of East Cowes in the north of the Island.

Whippingham is best known for its connections with Queen Victoria, especially St. Mildred's Church, redesigned by Prince Albert. The village became the centre of the royal estate supporting Osborne House and Barton Manor. The farms, school, almshouses, forge and cottages were rebuilt when they became part of the Queen's estate and Prince Albert had a 'model farm' built at Barton. Queen Victoria took a close interest in 'her people' in Whippingham, providing for them in sickness and in health.

Whippingham went through various alterations to its boundaries in the 1890s and again in 1933 when it was abolished as a civil parish (a status which may have been reconsituted since 1974). These are best illustrated in a table, as follows:

Parish Manors

According to The National Archives Manorial Documents Register, the following manors were located in the parish of Whippingham: Barton Manor, Clavells Manor, East Shamlord Manor, Fairlee Manor, Osborne Manor, Pan Manor, Shide Manor, Whippingham Manor, and Woodhouse Manor. Osborne Manor was the pre-cursor of the Queen Victoria's residence, Osborne House. Some of the other manors are of a size to be mentioned as "addresses" in 19th century censuses, as well as earlier parish registers and manorial documents, and for the Family History Library Catalog to classify them separately. See [[Category:Whippingham, Isle of Wight, England]] listed below.

Research Tips

• Victoria County History of Hampshire, volume 5, chapter on Whippingham.
• Victoria County History of Hampshire has an outline map of the parishes of East Medina.
• The Isle of Wight Family History Society has a website with a lot of information.
• GENUKI has a list of archive holders in Hampshire including the Hampshire Record Office, various museums in Portsmouth and Southhampton, the Isle of Wight Record Office and Archives.
• The Hampshire Online Parish Clerk project has a large collection of transcriptions from Parish Registers across Hampshire.
• A listing of all the Registration Districts in England and Wales since their introduction in 1837 together with tables listing the parishes that were part of each district and the time period covered, along with detailed notes on changes of parish name, mergers, etc. Do respect the copyright on this material.
• The three-storey City Museum in Winchester covers the Iron Age and Roman periods, the Middle Ages, and the Victorian period.
• Volumes in The Victoria County History Series are available for Hampshire through British History Online. There are three volumes and the county is covered by parishes within the old divisions of "hundreds".

A collection of maps on the A Vision of Britain through Time website illustrating the English county of Hampshire over the period 1832-1932 (the last two are expandible):

• The Hundreds of Hampshire, a map from HMSO Boundary Commissioners, dated 1832
• Hampshire showing parishes in their Rural Districts as of 1900, a map from the Ordnance Survey
• Hampshire showing parishes in their Rural Districts after the alterations of 1932, a map from the Ordnance Survey

• A group of maps of the post-1974 municipal districts or boroughs of Hampshire on Wikipedia Commons