Calbourne - Harrod 1865 - Civic, Commercial and Private entries- Page 1

Prettyman Mrs., Westover house

Simeon Sir John, Bart., M.P., Swainstone

Wilson Rev. Cornelius W. M. A., rector

Arnold James, blacksmith, Lock's green

Arnold James, jun., blacksmith, Stonesteps

Attrill Andrew, farmer, Lambsleazer

Attrill Morris, farmer, Elmsworth

Baker James, farmer

Duke Mrs., farmer, Langbridge

Fallick Charles, cowkeeper, Normans

Gustar John, carpenter

Harvey Miss, farmer

Heal Joseph, blacksmith and shopkeeper, and licensed to let horses

Hobbs Charles, baker

Lock Robert, miller, Upper mill

Long Albert, carpenter

Long Andrew, carpenter, Five houses

Long Miss Winifred, shopkeeper

Phillips George, shoemaker

Phillips John, shoemaker

Rice Mrs., farmer, Locks farm

Saunders Osmond, farmer, Clamerkine

Saunders Thomas, cowkeeper, Stonesteps

Scott William, farmer

Shephard Richard, farmer, New barn

Stark Edmund, farmer, Elm farm

Stark Mrs., farmer, Hebbard's farm

Thearle Daniel, farmer, London farm

Thorn Henry, carrier

Westmore Joseph, farmer, Fleetlands

Westmore Thomas, farmer and miller, Fulholding

Whilday John, tailor

Woodford Benjamin, Sun inn, and farmer

Woodford John, butcher

Young W., farm bailiff, Upper Watchingwell

CALBOURNE is a parish in the West Medina liberty, distant 5 miles W. by S. from Newport.

The church (All Saints) is in the pointed style of architecture, and consists of nave, chancel, south aisle, north transept, and square tower.

The manor of Calbourne was once in the possession of Richard Nevill, Earl of Salisbury, from whom it descended to his son, the famous Richard, Earl of Warwick, who was defeated and killed by Edward IV. at the Battle of Barnet.

Sir John Simeon, Bart., is lord of the manor, and chief owner of the soil. The principal seats are Swainstone and Westover ; the former, the seat of Sir John Simeon, Bart., is a handsome square stone building, in the Italian style, and delightfully situated. Westover, the seat of the [Mrs. Pettyman], is a handsome modern villa, situated on a gentle declivity at the foot of the Calbourne Downs.

Population in 1861 was, including Newtown, 728.

Here is a National school, with a branch at Newtown.

NEWTOWN is a chapelry to the north, on the Solent, 5 miles E. [W.?] of Newport, and 5 E. of Yarmouth; the chapel is dedicated to the Holy Ghost. It is a neat edifice.Although a small village, it was anciently a town of some importance, called Francheville, the ground still showing evidences of two long streets running east and west, and connected by other shorter streets running north and south. Some ancient deeds preserve the names of High street and Gold street. It is thought to have been burned by the Danes in 1001, and it certainly was by the French in the reign of Richard ll., from which last devastation it arose under its present name of Newtown. It received from Queen Elizabeth the privilege (which was annulled by the Reform Act) of sending two members to Parliament ; they were elected in the Town-hall, which stands on an eminence overlooking one of the creeks of the harbour, and which is now used as a school. This is a secure and pleasant haven, formed by a broad estuary, which divides into small creeks at the points where four or five rivulets fall into the sea. Newtown stands between two of them. Here are salterns, where there is a considerable quantity of salt manufactured.

NEW BARN, half a mile N.E.; Great and Upper Watchingwell, 2 miles N.E. ; Fulholding, 1 mile N. ; Hebbards, 1 1/2 mile N.E. ; White Oak, 2 miles N. ; Clamerkins, 2 1/2 miles N.E. ; Elm, 1 1/2 mile N. ; Street Place, 1 mile N.W. ; Chessel and Shalcomb, 2 miles S.W. ; Elmsworth, 5 miles N.E. ; Locks Green, 4 miles N.E.

POSTAL REGULATIONS. - Joseph Heal, receiver, Calbourne. Letters arrive from Newport at 8.45 a.m. and are dispatched at 4.30 p.m. The nearest money-order office and post town is at Newport.

National School,-Miss Mary Amey, mistress ; (Newtown branch), Miss Atley, mistress.

CARRIER TO NEWPORT. - Henry Thorn, from his own house, daily.

Abrook Henry, oyster merchant

Harvey John, cowkeeper

Harvey Miss, farmer

Holbrook James, master mariner