BOURN, a parish in Caxton district, Cambridge; on n affluent of the river Cam, 2 miles SSE of Caxton, and ¼ WNW of Lord's-Bridge r. station. It has a post office under Royston. Acres, 4,065. Real property, £4,981. Pop., 883. Houses, 187. The property is divided among a few. Bourn Hall is the seat of Earl Delawarr. he manor belonged to Morcar, the Saxon; and passed to the Picots; and a castle on it was destroyed in the civil wars of the time of Henry III. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Ely. Value, £161.* Patron, Christ's College, Cambridge. Charities, £42.

(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))