You’ve probably seen Winkle Street on a postcard. It’s a row of old cottages in Calbourne facing the little Caul Bourne stream, and opposite them is a stone-walled sheepwash, a pen where farmers washed their sheep before shearing. The sheepwash is recorded in a survey of 1640 and was last used in 1975. In the middle of the village, All Saints’ Church is mostly 13th century and has a late 14th-century brass of a knight with a dog at his feet. Historic England’s listing names him as William Montague, son of the Earl of Salisbury, killed while jousting with his own father. The stream runs on north to the Solent at Newtown Harbour, and Calbourne Down is just south of the village.
