Old Newport, Isle of Wight

Elizabethan Newport clustered around the navigable head of the River Medina. It was a low lying, marshy place the town broken up by three open spaces. From the river, one came first to the Audit House for the transaction of the town’s business, then to St Thomas’s Square with its already old church and market house. Close by, the fish and flesh shambles filled the air with the stench of meat and the street with offal. Finally one reached St James’s Square and the beast market. A woman had been recently burnt here for witchcraft,

By virtue of its location, Newport became the capital of the Isle of Wight. In the 16th century the southern extent of the town was marked by Cosham St, later re-named South Street. Here the poorest people crowded into a jumble of tiny ill served cottages. At that time Newport was part of the parish of Carisbrooke and it was to there that the dead were taken to be buried.

The Outbreak of Plague

With inadequate sanitation, no effective supply of water and the arrival of boats from the mainland in 1582 the worst fears were confirmed when plague reached the Island. Newport lost as many as 200 of its people. Even the Island’s governor, Sir Edward Horsey, succumbed to the scourge.

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