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3 unusual facts about Calbourne


Calbourne

Winkle Street was originally named Barrington Row, presumably after longtime residents of Swainston, the Barrington family.

LSWR O2 class

W24 Calbourne, was bought by the Wight Locomotive Society, which in 1971 moved its headquarters to Havenstreet and became the Isle of Wight Steam Railway.

The Silence of Dean Maitland

Set in a fictionalized Isle of Wight, particularly around Calbourne, it concerns an ambitious clergyman who accidentally kills the father of a young woman he has made pregnant, then allows his best friend to be wrongly convicted for the crime.



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