Langbridge Manor
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Langbridge Manor is a manor house on the Isle of Wight
Isle of Wight
The Isle of Wight is a county and the largest island of England, located in the English Channel, on average about 2–4 miles off the south coast of the county of Hampshire, separated from the mainland by a strait called the Solent...

, situated within the Newchurch
Newchurch, Isle of Wight
Newchurch is a village and civil parish on the Isle of Wight. It is located between Sandown and Newport in the southeast of the island. Anthony Dillington, owner of the Knighton Gorges Manor in Newchurch wrote to his son Robert in 1574 that, "This is the very Garden of England, and we be privileged...

 parish. It was historically linked with Ashey Manor
Ashey Manor
Ashey Manor is a manor house in Ashey on the Isle of Wight, situated within the Newchurch parish.It was historically linked with Ryde Manor.-History:...

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History

It was held of the manor of Ashey, and presumably took its name from an early bridge over the Yar on the site of the present one. It was probably granted to the abbey of Wherwell with Ashey, and the manor and church of Langbridge, with an annual pension of half a mark payable to the parish church of Newchurch
Newchurch, Isle of Wight
Newchurch is a village and civil parish on the Isle of Wight. It is located between Sandown and Newport in the southeast of the island. Anthony Dillington, owner of the Knighton Gorges Manor in Newchurch wrote to his son Robert in 1574 that, "This is the very Garden of England, and we be privileged...

, was confirmed to the Abbess of Wherwell in 1228 by Pope Gregory. It followed the descent of Ashey, and at a court of that manor held by Thomas Cotele in 1624 Thomas Lovinge is returned as holding Langbridge. As of 1912 it was the property of Mr. Edward Carter, who purchased it in 1906.
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