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Mason's Guide 1876 - Wootton

"The church of Wootton is about a mile from the village, and is one of the oldest in the island. It containes some monuments of the Lisle family, a family that settled at Wootton at the Conquest, but became extinct at the end of the last century. Sir John Lisle, of this family was one of the Commissioners who tried Charles I. At the Restoration he fled to Swizerland, where he was assassinated. His widow was beheaded when upwards if seventy years of age for having received into her house some persons said to have been concerned in Monmouth's rebellion. There are two Wesleyan Chapels in the village of Wootton, one for the Old Connexion and the other for the Free Wesleyans. There are also a post-office, and an inn, at which the stage coaches to Newport stop. The pedestrian can return to Ryde either by the main road through Binstead, or by another near Kite Hill through Firestone Copse." (From Mason's Guide to the Isle of Wight, 1876)