Kingston, Isle of Wight

Kingston is a small settlement and former civil parish, now in the parish of Shorwell, on the Isle of Wight, England, located 5 miles southwest of Newport in the southwest of the island, an area known as the Back of the Wight.

In 1931 the parish had a population of 50.

[1] On 1 April 1933 the parish was abolished and merged with Shorwell.

[2] Formerly a separate Anglican parish, with its own parish church, St. James' Church,[3] Kingston is now amalgamated with the adjacent Anglican parish of Shorwell, as Shorwell with Kingston.

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