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It stands on the site of a house which was formerly occupied by a notorious smuggler named Boyce (d. 1740), who for a long series of years had been engaged in the illicit trade in the "back of the island," but having sufficiently increased his savings, he purchased Appley, and retired there, seemingly far removed from his former connections and avocations.
St Cecilia's Abbey, Appley Rise, Ryde, Isle of Wight, England. As well as being a Benedictine abbey, this chapel holds regular public Roman Catholic Masses and is accordingly registered as a public place of worship. It is within the Catholic Parish of Ryde and is a locally listed building. Date: 19 May 2016: Source: Own work: Author: Hassocks5489
Appley is an area of Ryde on the Isle of Wight. Until the early 1960s, it was largely based on the former English country house of Appley Towers (seat of the Hutt family, and later of Sir Hedworth Williamson ) and neighbouring Appley Farm.
This is the origin of the present Community. At the request of the Bishop, it opened a small school for girls which flourished for some years but was given up in 1922 when the expanding community moved to the site at Appley Ryde, vacated by the return to France of the exiled nuns of the Abbey of Ste-Cécile de Solesmes. In 1926, the Priory of ...
Appley may refer to the following places in the United Kingdom: Appley, a hamlet in the civil parish of Stawley in Somerset; Appley, Isle of Wight, an area of Ryde; Appley Bridge, a village in West Lancashire, England; Appley House, Isle of Wight; Appley Towers, Isle of Wight
Appley Towers, also at various times called Apley Towers or Appley Towers House was an English country house near Appley House in Appley, Isle of Wight. It was the home of the Hutt family, who bought it in the 1870s, [1] [2] and later of Sir Hedworth Williamson. The house has been demolished, [3] but a number of its estate buildings survive.
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The Island Line Trains service runs from Ryde Pier Head via Ryde Esplanade to Shanklin, a distance of 8.5 miles (14 km). Ryde St John's Road railway station lies further south in the town. The bus interchange lies between Ryde Pier and the Hover Terminal on the Esplanade. Ryde is the second busiest stop in the Southern Vectis network after ...