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Merstone Manor
Merston Manor (previously: Merestone) is a manor house in Merstone on the Isle of Wight, England. The manor was first mentioned in the Domesday Book. Prior to the Norman Conquest, Merston Manor was owned by the Brictuin family. The present home, built in 1605 in the Jacobean style by Edward Cheeke, was rebuilt in the Victorian era. This structure may be the oldest brick house on the Island. The manor now belongs to the Crofts family.
==Geography==
At a short distance from the town of Newport and almost in the very centre of the Island, there starts in an easterly direction, a range of lofty downs which occupies one half of the longer axis of the Isle of Wight. From St. George's Down where they commence, passing Arreton, Mersley, Ashey, and Brading Downs, then bridging over the Brading valley, and continuing on to Bembridge and Culver Down, they measure an almost straight length of a little over eight miles. At their feet lies one of the most fertile valleys in the Island, protected almost entirely from the north and north-east winds, by the long range of down. At the present time, the district is noted for the large size of many of the fields, some of which approach, if they do not exceed eighty acres in extent. Through the midst of the valley flows the eastern Yar, and abundance of water is obtained from wells attached to every farm and nearly every cottage. From the summit of the Downs, the traveller sees in the spring, the beautiful rich brown earth, in the summer extensive fields of wheat, and in the early nights of autumn, the lights of the farm houses, and of the cottages in the villages can be most plainly discerned, whilst at the sea end of the valley, the two towns of Sandown and Shanklin are conspicuous by the rows of lights in their streets. In the very bottom of the valley, not far from its western end lies the hamlet of Merstone, and near to a Manor House where, in centuries gone by, have dwelt Saxon, Norman and English owners, traces of whose occupations still remain.
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