Binstead, Isle of Wight One Place Study

Location: Binstead, Isle of Wight, England, United Kingdom
Surnames/tags: One_Place_Studies England Isle_of_Wight

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Contents 1 Binstead, Isle of Wight One Place Study 1.1 Geography 1.2 How to Join 1.3 Goals 1.4 History 1.5 Population 1.6 Social Media 1.6.1 Notables 2 Sources

Binstead, Isle of Wight One Place Study

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Binstead Hill the main road through Binstead Village

From the main OPS Project Page: A One Place Study is a historical and genealogical study of a specific place and all the people who have lived there. Our mission is to encourage and assist those interested in the study of one-place genealogy and history. The project also aims to promote connections to the Worldwide family tree from within local family groups in one-place studies at WikiTree.

This is a One Place Study to collect together in one place everything about Benestede (Binstead) in one place on wikitree. My paternal uncle and his family lived in Binstead, at 3 Binstead Hill and my sisters and I stayed or visited them during the 1970's. Initially, I will be adding my relatives to the linked category, but eventually all who have lived there. The hope is that other researchers like you will join our study to help make it a valuable reference point for people studying lines that cross or intersect.

Geography

Continent: Europe

Sovereign State: United Kingdom

Country: England

County: Isle of Wight

GPS Coordinates: 50.7272, -1.18834

Elevation: 25.0 m or 82.0 feet

How to Join

Please contact the project leader Janet Wild or post a comment to the right. If you have any questions, just ask. Thanks.

Goals

1. Add more data and links to OPS page - Done
2. Add my relatives to the category associated with OPS in progress
3. Add others to the category associated with OPS
4. Add details of the two The Binstead & Havenstreet War Shrine and the Binstead War Memorial
5. Review war records and create profiles on Wikitree
6. AddOPS to the https://www.one-place-studies.org/

History

Benestede (Binstead) was a settlement in Domesday Book. ^[1] It is noted as being in the hundred of Bowcombe and the county of Hampshire.^[2] It had a recorded population of 2 households in 1086, putting it in the smallest 20% of settlements recorded in Domesday. ^[3]These two households appear to have been two villains or ploughman who worked the land held by (William De Azor). Benestede (Binstead) is an easy village to pass straight through on your way from Newport to Ryde. Binstead was originally recorded in 1086 in the Domesday Book as Benestede and was known for the quality of its limestone. These Limestone quarries were exploited on a large scale at least from the 11th century onwards. They were more or less worked out before the end of the Middle Ages and hence it is difficult to establish a precise location for the original quarries. ^[4] Stone pits can be seen on the 1866 O.S. Map in the village of Binstead. The remnants of this ancient quarrying industry are still visible today in the village’s landscape and place names.

Nearby Quarr abbey took its name from the quarry to the east of it. The Cistercian house of our Lady at Quarr was founded in 1131, by Baldwin de Redvers, as a colony from Savigny, and was consecrated 1 June 1150. ^[5] A licence was granted in 1340, to wall and crenellate the abbey and this work was still in progress in 1366. The abbey was dissolved during King Henry VIII's reign in July 1536.^[6] The monks disbursed to their sister abbey on the mainland.

The medieval Abbey church was either built or faced with locally quarried limestone. Much of the abbey was demolished the remains are now on the historic at risk register.^[7]

The abbey was later purchased and demolished by John Mills of Southampton. Some of its stone was used for building Yarmouth Castle.^[8]

Population

1086 2 households^[3]

Social Media

The Binstead history and memories group

Notables

Sir John de Benstede, a prominent member of the English royal household, Prebendary of Sandiacre (1297-c1308) ^[9][10]

Sources

1. ↑ https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/D7300915
2. ↑ https://opendomesday.org/place/SZ5792/binstead/
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1} https://opendomesday.org/book/hampshire/32/
4. ↑ https://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/archives/view/stones_ahrb_2005/cfm/Public/details/QuarryDetails.cfm?Quarrycode=BNST&BCnt=1&Choice=5
5. ↑ https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/hants/vol5/pp151-155
6. ↑ https://quarrabbey.org/heritage/medieval-quarr/history/
7. ↑ https://quarrabbey.org/heritage/medieval-quarr/ruins-of-the-abbey-of-quarr/
8. ↑ https://quarrabbey.org/heritage/medieval-quarr/history/
9. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_de_Benstede
10. ↑ https://www.houseofnames.com/binstead-family-crest

• https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/hants/vol5/pp151-155
• https://quarrabbey.org/