Calbourne, Hampshire

Description
Calbourne, a village and a parish in the Isle of Wight. The village stands 5 miles WSW of Newport, which is the post town; money order and telegraph office, Brighstone. By an Order in Council in 1871 the chapelry and borough of Newtown, with about 2730 acres, were taken from the parish of Calbourne, and with a portion of the district of Porchfield taken from the parish of Shalfleet, was constituted the separate parish of Newtown-cum-Porchfield. Acreage of civil parish, 6551; population, including Newtown, 830 ; of ecclesiastical, 479. Westover manor belonged to the Esturs, passed to the Lisles and the Holmeses, and belongs now to Lord Heytesbury in right of his grandmother, the daughter of the late Sir Leonard W. Holmes. The house on it is modern.