Calbourne is the location of Winkle Street, a picturesque row of cottages which frequently appears on photographs and postcards of the Isle of Wight.

It features a brass portrait of an armoured knight with hands folded in prayer, resting his feet on a dog.

The pictured knight is thought to be William Montacure who was Earl of Salisbury and a governor of the island in the 14th century.

The heartbroken father created altar tombs in every church in every village in which he owned land or houses.

[6] A fictionalised Calbourne, as "Malbourne", is the central location of Maxwell Gray's 1886 novel The Silence of Dean Maitland.