| Anglesey (Angleseyville) |
| The ward of Anglesey also contains
Alverstoke which is recorded as Alvarestock in the Domesday Survey of
1080, Anglesey was once an old village that stood at the head of Haslar
Creak and is thought to be the oldest settlement on the peninsula and
most certainly it was Saxon. Alverstoke derived its name , according to
John Pontissera, from a Saxon lady called Alwara and the stoke comes
from a settlement in marshy ground with a religious connection. Robert Cruickshank planned to revitalise Alverstoke and build a holiday resort there in the early part of the 19th century under the patronage of the Marquis of Anglesey, and also to build a place of beauty, in Regency architecture and called it the Crescent Haslar Royal Naval Hospital ws found in 1744 and is in the ward, as well as the 1850s Gunboat Sheds and Fort Blockhouse which later became known as the Headquarters of the Navy's submariners and now holds the Submarine Museum which is a popular attraction to the many holiday makers to the area. Dateline 1875 A chapelry. in the parish and incorporation of Alverstoke, Southern division of the county, and county court district of Portsmouth, is a beautiful village of modern date, commanding extensive views of the Isle of Wight, Spithead, and the Motherbank. The earliest building, Uxbridge House, was erected in 1826, the first stone having been laid by the Marquis of Anglesey. St. Mark's chapel is in the Elizabethan style, and was opened in the year 1844: it is a brick building, with stone dressings. There is a large hotel with assembly room; also another building containing reading room and baths, with pleasure gardens attached. The situation is elevated, and the surrounding scenery commands universal admiration for its beauty and great variety. The Gosport terminus of the South Western railway is about 2 miles north. The Gosport Road station of the South Western railway is about 1 mile north, and Stokes Bay station and free pier on the same railway are contiguous to the village, and iť the shortest route for the Isle of Wight. Forts Gilkicker and Monckton are also contiguous.
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