Cridmore is a hamlet on the Isle of Wight, in the civil parish of Chillerton and Gatcombe and the ward of Central Rural, about south of Newport. It is the location of the Cridmore Bog, a Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) in unfavourable condition, notified in 1985. The neighbouring hamlet is Roslin.W.H and Son's Map of the Isle of Wight, exact date unknown.W.H Smith and Son's Map of the Isle of Wight from the Ordnance Survey, exact date unknown.
Name Its name means 'the marshy ground overgrown by weeds or other vegetation', from Old English crȳde and mōr, referring to the Cridmore Bog.
~1286: Cruddemore
1299: Crudmore
1305: Crodemor
1337: Crudemore
1708: Cridmore
18th and 19th centuries: Cridmore
History
On 10 August 1940, four bombs went off in a neigbouring SSSI, The Wilderness, damaging windows at Cridmore Farm.
Cridmore Farm The farm is owned by the Clarke family, now in their 4th generation of farming. They have a beef herd of ~50 cows who graze on the marshlands during summer and calve during spring. It has ~ of land for combinable crops, such as wheat, oilseed rape, beans and oats.
Building refurbishments and improvements In 1962, the farm buildings were improved, for example an upgrade to the dairy using bricks from the brickworks at Rookley. The Barn Store, built in 1983, expanded in 1990 and originally used for housing cattle has been refurbished into a storage facility, managed by Nick and Lizzie Ward.
Cridmore Bog
The Cridmore Bog is an SSSI notified in 1985 situated in a flat valley bottom with deep acid peat and marshy grassland, which the River Medina flows through. It makes up one of the largest wet acid peatland habitats on the Isle of Wight, with plant species uncommon in other parts of the Island. It is able to support plants like Blue Cornflowers (Centuarea cyanus) and Yellow Corn Marigolds (Glebionis segetum) It is in unfavourable condition, along with two other sites: Alverstone Marshes and Thorness Bay. Cows graze on the site during summer.
Location
References
External links Cridmore Bog SSSI Details Barn Store Self-Storage