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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Bourn like this:
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.
Bourn is now part of SOUTH CAMBRIDGESHIRE District. Click here for graphs and data of how SOUTH CAMBRIDGESHIRE has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Bourn itself, go to Statistics.
How to reference this page:
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Bourn, in South Cambridgeshire and Cambridgeshire | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/5851
Date accessed: 08th April 2026
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