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Mason's Guide 1876 - Godshill

"This village may be reached by taking the train to Wroxall, from whence there is a pleasant walk though Appuldurcombe Park. Godshill is a large, and even handsome village, situated picturesquely on a bold eminence or headland on which stands the church. The church is a cruciform edifice of considerable antiquity and magnitude, and contains memorials to some of the Worsleys, whose burial vault is beneath. The Griffin inn is a commodious house. Appuldurcombe, the noble mansion of the Worsleys, which formerly contained the many objects of vertu collected by Sir Richard Worsley, and now known as the Museum Worsleianum (afterwards the residence of the Earl of Yarborough), is now a school. There is a delightful walk through the park to the railway station at Wroxall." (From Mason's Guide to the Isle of Wight, 1876)