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Gunville is a small settlement on the Isle of Wight, off the south coast of England. It largely comprises housing, although there is also a small number of shops, a snooker hall, Methodist Church and a fishing lake. The village lies south of Forest Road (A3054), joining to the larger settlement of Carisbrooke. It is approximately west of Newport and chiefly lies along a stretch, either side of Gunville Road (B3323). It encompasses Fox Place, Alvington Manor View, Bramleys, Gunville Crescent, Spring Walk, Pineview Drive, Taylor Road, Gunville West, Chapel Close, Broadwood Lane, Park Close, Forest Hills, Arthur Moody Drive, Ash Lane, Ash Close and The Hollows. There has been some argument as to where the dividing line between Carisbrooke and Gunville actually lies. In 2009, a new sign was erected showing that Gunville started at the point where Priory Road becomes Gunville Road, at the junction with School Lane. This was the view held in a Newport Parish Council meeting of 2009.〔Isle of Wight County Press dated 17 July 2009, Page 17〕 But, most people accept that in the past, the starting point of Gunville was the old railway bridge which allowed trains to run under the road, half a mile further to the North.〔Isle of Wight County Press dated 12 June 2009, Page 35〕 However, this railway bridge and its track has long been demolished, after the railway itself closed in 1953, leaving nothing to visually separate the two villages (See below). The Gunville Sign was subsequently moved further north to the junction of Alvington Manor Road and Gunville Road, where it now lies. In the past, the centre of the Island was made up of a number of small and distinct villages, such as Newport, Carisbrooke, Gunville, Clatterford, Shide, New Village, Barton's Village, Bellecroft, Pan, Hunny-Hill and Fairlee. As time went on, Newport and Carisbrooke have largely engulfed and absorbed all of these villages except for Gunville, although even for Gunville there have had to be concerted efforts to keep the name on the map, with many people preferring to refer to it as a part of Carisbrooke. Nowadays, the Newport conurbation has become so large, that there is no visible break whatsoever between, Newport, Carisbrooke and Gunville, with the only separation being the old historical boundaries. ==History== There is some argument as to how Gunville derived its name. One version is that it was named after William de Gundeville who is known to have lived in the area in 1292. Another is that its name comes from Victorian times, when the area was used to store ammunition, and that the name was derived from "Gun Village". However, in an 1884 edition of the Isle of Wight County Press, it is stated that in the early 1800s, a James Lambert owned a house which was close to Forest Road. This house was occupied by officers of the nearby Parkhurst Barracks (renamed Albany Barracks shortly after completion) and that there were two small cannons in the grounds at the front of the house. Because of this, the house became known as 'Gun Villa' and the hamlet which sprang up soon afterwards came to become known as Gunville.〔Isle of Wight County Press dated 27 December 1884, Page 3〕 This story is also an indication that there was not a settlement of any size here until sometime after 1800, with the Methodist Church being built in 1848. In 1897, after decades of negotiations, a new road was proposed from Gunville Lane and through Priory Meadow into Carisbrooke, effectively joining Gunville to Carisbrooke by what we now call Gunville Road. Prior to this, Gunville would have been isolated and only accessible from Forest Road to the North. The new road was thought to be a great improvement, as the original access the other-way through Gunville Lane was considered "very narrow and hilly" and that the new road would "cut off a very ugly corner". The land, which was part of his Priory Estate, was donated by Mr Tankerville Chamberlayne MP of Southampton, well known as a generous public benefactor and for donating many pieces of land around the country. It may well be that this new road started around the area of the old Gunville bridge and joined on to Priory Road; and was the reason why many older people consider that Gunville starts at the Gunville bridge area, rather than Priory Road. As the land around Gunville was at one time owned by Tankerville Chamberlayne, could it also be that the name Gunville could have partly been derived from his Christian name of Tankerville? This is probably just a coincidence, as being born in 1843, the name of Gunville had almost certainly been already coined by the time that he succeeded his father in 1876. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Gunville」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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