Descriptive gazetteer entries

We have no further entries in our collection of 19th century descriptive gazetteers about Calbourne, but we do have this information about localities within the associated parish or parishes. You may be able to find further references to Calbourne in the descriptive gazetteers by doing a full-text search here.

Place Type of entry Source
Newtown village Bartholomew
NEWTOWN a decayed town and a chapelry Imperial
WESTOVER a manor Imperial

Descriptive gazetteer entries

In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Calbourne like this:

CALBOURNE, a village, a parish, and a subdistrict in the Isle of Wight. The village stands 5 miles WSW of Newport; and has a post office under Newport. The parish includes also Newtown borough; and extends from Brixton Down to the Solent. Acres, 6,397; of which 265 are water. Real property, £4,471. Pop., 728. Houses, 145. The property is divided among a few. Westover manor belonged to the Esturs; passed to the Lisles and the Holmeses; and belongs now to the eldest son of Lord Heytesbury, in right of his wife...


, the daughter of the late Sir Leonard W. Holmes. The house on it is modern; and the grounds are tasteful. Calbourne Bottom, 1¼ mile SSW of the village, is a depression between Brixton and Moltestone downs. The living is a rectory, united with the p. curacy of Newtown, in the diocese of Winchester. Value, £675.* Patron, the Bishop of Winchester. The church is early English, much modernized; and has a brass of 1480.-The subdistrict contains eight parishes. Acres, 25,050. Pop., 5,417. Houses, 1,071.

This is the only descriptive gazetter entry we have found, but you may be able to find further references to Calbourne by doing a full-text search here.


Travel writing

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Newbridge 0 2
Shalfleet 0 2
Ningwood 0 1
Bowcombe 0 2
Wellow 0 1
Carisbrooke 6 4
Parkhurst 0 2
Clatterford 0 2
Mottistone 0 2
Hulverstone 0 2
Thorley 0 2
Brook 0 2
Brixton 0 2
Yarmouth 11 2
Lemerston 0 2
Northwood 0 2
Newport 10 2
the Isle of Wight 50 4