Locksgreen (also spelt Locks Green or Lock's Green) is a hamlet on the Isle of Wight, in the civil parish of Calbourne, Newtown and Porchfield. There are 2 Grade II listed buildings in the hamlet, called Locks Green Dairy and Locks Farmhouse.
The hamlet borders a site of special scientific interest, the Newtown Harbour SSSI.
Name
The name derives from the surname Lokke, a family who possessed land there from the 14th century. Other names derived from the surname are Lokkesland (1387), Lockesplace (1507) and (Little) Locks (1769).
School The school in Locksgreen opened in the 1800's closed in 1949, with the pupils being transferred to the Shalfleet School. Fred Long, who attended the school, and farmed at Westover, Park Place and Hillis farms said:
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