Place:Godshill (IOW), Isle of Wight, England

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Name	Godshill (IOW)
Alt names	Roud	source: settlement in parish
	Sandford	source: settlement in parish
Type	Parish (ancient), Civil parish
Coordinates	50.633°N 1.233°W
Located in	Isle of Wight, England (1890 - )
Also located in	Hampshire, England ( - 1890)
See also	East Medina Liberty, Hampshire, England	ancient county division in which it was located
	Isle of Wight Rural, Isle of Wight, England	rural district in which it was located 1894-1974
	South Wight District, Isle of Wight, England	district municipality covering the area 1974-1995
	Isle of Wight (council), Isle of Wight, England	district municipality and unitary authority covering the area since 1995

source: Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names

source: Family History Library Catalog

NOTE: This Godshill on the Isle of Wight should not be confused with another Godshill (Fordingbridge) on the mainland of Hampshire, located close to Fordingbridge in the New Forest.

the text in this section is based on an article in Wikipedia

Godshill is a village and civil parish on the Isle of Wight, England with a population of 1,465 according to the 2001 UK census, reducing slightly to 1,459 at the 2011 Census. It is located between Newport and Ventnor in the southeast of the Island.

For more information, see the EN Wikipedia article Godshill, Isle of Wight.

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Victoria County History of Hampshire, volume 5, chapter on Godshill.
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

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