WOOTTON, a parish in the Isle of Wight; on a creek of its own name, 3½ miles W of Ryde r. station. It has a post-office, designated Wootton-Bridge, Isle of Wight. Acres, 1,360; of which 282 are water. Real property, £1,108. Pop., 79. Houses, 13. The seat of the De Insulas or Lisles was long here; but the park was destroyed in 1705. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Winchester. Value, £240.* Patron, F. W. Popham, Esq. The church is ancient. Two Wesleyan chapels and a national school are adjacent to the parish, at Wootton-Bridge.

(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))