BoAr: Bourne Places

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The Bourne Archive

The original idea of this page was to provide links to places named in the archive documents but that was too complex to be practical. It is nonetheless useful to have information to which reference can be made from other pages as appropriate. The list of old names of fields and other places in the parish represents that function.

From the old format, I have retained a selection of links from this page, to mentions of places within the parish of Bourne but it is not at all comprehensive. Go to document links.

Finding Bourne’s Open Fields

and Landscape Features on a Map

The names of the former open fields are medieval, as are the names of some of the enclosed lands but the sources of information used, date mostly from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Two major sources are the Exeter Estate Book (EEB) and Bourne Abbots Estate Map (BAEM), from 1827 and 1825, respectively.

To keep the text as concise as possible, the cardinal points of the compass are abbreviated to N, S, E and W, respectively. National grid references are given so as to place items on an Ordnance Survey (OS) map more concisely and clearly than the use, simply of other place names would allow. Where appopriate, geographical coordinates are given for use in Google Earth.

The Places

Abbot’s Cote: ‘the cross near Abbotes Cote’ marked the boundary between the parishes of Bourne and Thurlby, on the N bank of the River Glen. (Inquisition at Thetford, Baston; 14^th cent., reported by Wheeler, p. 247.)

Black Drove: 1824, the original Ordnance Survey’s name for Long Road, in the South Fen.

Blake Kyrk: in Pinchbeck parish, seemingly, the segment of the River Glen between Guthram Gowt and Surfleet. See Brunne Ee.

Bourne Meadows: S of Dyke Haws, N of Bourn Outgang (Spalding Road), W of Gobbold’s Park & E of East Field (EEB), around TF109212, each side of Meadow Drove.

Bourne-Morton Canal: an archaeological feature extending from Spalding Road, TF108205, to well toward the E end of Morton Fen, TF153245 (FIRT pp. 32-3, Plate IX and Map 3). Much of its length is detectable in Google Earth, notably at 52°47’38”N 0°18’54”W , altitude 1000m.

Bourne North Fen: around TF140210, E of Barnes Drove, W of River Glen, N of Bourne Eau

Bourne Outgang: the modern Spalding Road adjoining Newlands and Friar Bar Pastures, E as far as Friar Bar EEB.

Bourne Reeds: a small roadside plot along the E side of the modern A6121 at TF078193 (original OS). Plot number 133, 1 rod, 18 perches (EEB) = 1467 m². Held by the Bourne Abbots Estate (BAEM), copyhold of the Exeter Estate (EEB). Neither estate map names it. See OS map of 1891. By 1891, it appears shrubby.

Bourne South Fen: Between Bedehouse Bank and the River Glen at Tongue End. S of Bourne Eau, E of Car Dyke, N of Tunnel Bank (BAEM & EEB) and W of the River Glen.

Bourne South Fen Pastures: E of Car Dyke, N of Thurlby parish boundary, W of Sir Gilbert Heathcote’s Tunnel & S of Tunnel Bank.

Bourne West Field: around TF084200, W of Bourne.

Brewery Lane: part of the modern Burghley Street. See Ordnance Survey map of 1891.

Boadwater: in or adjacent to Moor Field, Dyke. Mentioned in 1720.

Brunne Ee: The Sewers Commission report of 1293 (Wheeler, p.246) lists this, Tolhan and Blake Kyrk successively as though each were a continuation of that before. Then it allocates the responsibility for bank repair to Brunne (Bourne) from Brunne to Goderamscote on the north side (i.e. in North Fen to its eastern extremity) and from Brunne to Merehirne on the south (i.e. in South Fen with Merehirne to be read as Tongue End). Brunne Ee might then be read as Bourne Eau to Tongue End. and Tolhan as River Glen from Tongue End to Guthram Gowt. Blake Kyrk would then be the Glen from Guthram Gowt to Surfleet. This was probably the responsibility of Pinchbeck, though that is explicit only on the south side from Merehirn to Surfleet. The missing allocation of the north bank responsibility for Blake Kyrk could be accounted for if no raised bank existed in that position. (A fuller explanation to follow on a separate page RJP3)

Burdett’s Close: EEB plot 156. TF088222, across the road W of Cawthorpe Hall.

Car Dyke: a major feature of the drainage of the Lincolnshire fen edge. In Bourne, it serves as a catchwater drain (RJP1). In the twelfth and early thirteenth centuries, it marked the W edge of Kesteven Royal Forest. Its origin is generally accepted as being Roman but its purpose is still debated. In Bourne, the catchwater function seems to be original but as a whole, it seems to have been also, a boundary marker (RJP3). It is named as Car Dike by EEB & BAEM. The section to the S and E of Bedehouse Bank is medieval, probably thirteenth century.

Cawthorpe West Field: around TF087220, W & SW of Cawthorpe (EEB). This area is not named by BAEM.

Church Street: the short section of the present Abbey Road, which lies between the Market Place and the first bend; that is, between the Nag’s Head and Church Walk. The name was changed in the late nineteenth century.

Coal Wharf or Coal Yard: the wharf at which coal arrived in Bourne. It lay on the north bank of the Bourne Eau just to the east of the Fen Bridge (Birkbeck p.94). The sixteenth century Colehouse was in the same position (see Colehouse Stile). The wharf appears to be alongside the site of the ‘Bason’ referred to as then existing, by the Bourne Eau Navigation Act of 1781.

Colehouse Stile: In the time of Elizabeth I, the western end of the Waredyke (Weir Dike) (Wheeler p.250 ¶3) and the eastern end of the Eastgate part of the town. It was on the north side of the Bourne Eau. The head of the Weir Dike is shown by BAEM, without naming it, as lying at TF107199. Coordinates 52° 45’ 56.4 N 0° 21’ 38.2” W. The dike is no longer very evident this far west.

Collins’ Bridge: the bridge across the eastern end of the Bourne Eau Navigation basin, Eastgate (1854). By inference from the name of Collins’ Bridge Road, the road leading from it. Collins Bridge is also named in John Featherstone’s map of Deeping Fen, 1763. (DEFRA Report Fig. 4). Birkbeck (p.94) does not use the name; referring to it as the Fen Bridge. See also South Fen Bar.

Collins’ Bridge Road: that part of the modern Cherryholt Road between the crossing of Bourne Eau and Willoughby Road (1854). (This is deduced by comparison of the description in EGdoc018, with EEB.)

Cotehill: a cottage against the S bank of Bourne Eau at TF145191. See map of 1892.

Decoy: EEB plot 297. TF165204, towards the NE end of North Fen Pastures .

Dike Outgang: the road E of Dyke township; from Wath Bridge between Bourne Meadows and Dyke Meadows, to Dyke Fen and Gobbold’s Park, EEB & BAEM.

Doctor’s Close: EEB plot 111. TF091200, Manor Lane, behind the BUC houses. (This is not Doctor’s Yard which was at TF095205, on the site of the bus station.)

Dog Hill Field: around TF093225, N of Cawthorpe, W of A15 Dyke turning (EEB). According to BAEM this is part of Quinto Field.

Dyke Fen: around TF140222, around Dyke Drove, E of Dyke Meadow to about TF162227.

Dyke Haws: south of Dyke Outgang, around TF107220. E of Car Dyke, at The Heg, W of Gobbold’s Park, N of Bourne Meadows and Bourne East Field (BAEM & EEB).

Dyke Meadows: around TF112225, E of Dyke, around Gravel Drain. W from Scotten Dike to Car Dyke in the N and in the S, to Wath Field. Mentioned in 1720: footnote 22.

Ea Dyke: Called Ee Dyke in Elizabeth I’s reign (Wheeler p.250 ¶3). It is the drain from Eau Well, Dyke, along Dyke Drove and was originally Dyke Ea.

East Field: around TF100210, NE of Bourne, between A15 & Car Dyke.

Eau Well: TF108221, the source of Dyke Eau. See OS map of 1891.

Edenham Road: westward from TF088224, on the S edge of Haseland Field between Cawthorpe and Bourne Wood, leading to Edenham (EEB). BAEM is less unambiguous about the extent of Haseland Field. See Bourne Abbots map of 1825. Later called Wood Lane (OS Pathfinder 856 1:25 000 1988). See OS map of 1891. The part near and in the wood looks early, while the eastern end is an enclosures-period road (1770). Hayes & Lane (fig. 83), show it crossing several medieval ridges.

Fen Bridge: the bridge across the Bourne Eau Navigation, Eastgate (Birkbeck p.94). (1854). Compare Collins’ Bridge.

Friar Bar: TF11782079. On the A151 where Bourne Outgang entered Bourne North Fen and became Long Drove EEB. Called Frier’s Bar by BAEM. It was at the SE corner of Gobbold’s Park (BAEM). In Elizabeth I’s reign, it was called Bourne Bar (Wheeler p.250 ¶3).

Friar Bar Hurn: position, as EEB’s version of Friar Bar Pastures (Hayes & Lane). It looks as though Hayes & Lane (fig. 83), interpreted the name as being synonymous with Friar Bar Pastures but a reading of BAEM in the light of the end of Wheeler p.250 ¶3, implies a position of TF117202. Here is an eastward-extending hurn (nook) on the extremity of Friar Bar Pastures. In the BAEM, the drain described by Wheeler’s source passes around three sides of it. Coordinates 52° 46’ 03.23” N 0° 20’ 45.84” W.

Friar Bar Pastures: around TF115203, S of Spalding Road opposite Gobbold’s Park Drove, N of Bourne Eau (EEB). Called Frier Bar Pastures by BAEM but there, the word ‘Pastures’ lies to the east of the delineated area, extending the designation towards Milking Nook Drove.

Gamble’s Close: EEB plot 160. TF091221, E of the road between Cawthorpe House & Cawthorpe Farm.

Gobbold's Park: around TF110213, each side of Gobbold’s Park Drove (OS Pathfinder 856 1:25 000 1988), Dyke Drove & Spalding Road (BAEM & EEB).

Gobbold’s Park Drove: the modern name (OS Pathfinder 856 1:25 000 1988) for what was formerly Middle Drove (BAEM & EEB). BAEM gives the name, ‘Gobolds Park Drove’ to that between Bourne Meadows (TF109211) and Gobbold’s Park. (TF117213). EEB calls the latter ‘Gobolds Park Road’.

Goodram’s Cote: Guthram Gowt TF172224. In the time of Elizabeth I, the eastern end of the Weir Dike (Wheeler p.250 ¶3). At that time, was recommended for extension towards Pinchbeck.

Greyhound Inn: was a boarding house for seasonal workers on the N side of the modern A151 at Friar Bar (OS 1:25 000 First Series TF12. 1955). See Ordnance Survey map of 1891.

Guthram Cote Toll Gate: TF167220, by Drainage Farm and marked by the chicane in the modern A151. The beginning of the turnpike road to Spalding which opened in 1822. Paterson (text), EEB & BAEM.

Guthram Gowt Engine: the fen drainage engine on the N side of the modern A151 and the W side of the South 40 foot Drain. See OS map of 1889.

Hasleland Field: around TF085226, on each side of Hasleland Road. N of Cawthorpe and Edenham Road, W of the Turnpike road and E of Bourne Wood. Its S was marked by Edenham Road and a line between there and the Dyke turning. (BAEM & EEB). See map.

Hasleland Road: in Hasleland Field, northward from TF088224, leading from Cawthorpe towards Hanthorpe (BAEM & EEB). See map.

The Hegg: EEB plot 198. Around TF104220: The strip to the south of Dyke in which the earthworks of the Car Dyke are preserved. Called The Heg by BAEM. See map.

Herring Bridge: TF124222: a bridge across Bourne New Dike carrying Dike Drove (BAEM). At the NE corner of Gobbold’s Park, the Bourne New Dike, which formed the E boundary of Gobbold’s Park, left it an turned E along the centre of Dyke Drove. The S carriageway, therefore has to cross the dike. OS Pathfinder 856 1:25 000 1988 calls the S carriageway Bourne Drove.

Hocroft End: a feature in or adjacent to Cawthorpe West Field. Mentioned in 1720: footnote 19.

The Hurn: land adjoining Hangate Way, probably in Dyke. Mentioned in 1720: footnote 16.

Hussey’s Wood ?Close: around TF084222. Pencilled note on BAEM subsequently struck out. See map

Hussey’s Wood ?[Past]ures: around TF083218. Pencilled note on BAEM. See map

Kettle Fold Close: Part of EEB plot 197. TF105222, adjoining Car Dyke, S of Wath Close, Dyke.

Leve Brigg: seems to be the bridge on Bourne Eau which carries Cherryholt Road. Taken as marking the edge of Bourne. (14^th cent. inquisition reported by Wheeler, p.247.)

Long Drove: between Friar Bar and the turnpike gate (EEB & BAEM) near Guthram Gowt, formerly Gutheram Cote (BAEM). It is now part of the A151, Spalding Road.

Long Road: the main drove in South Fen. So called by the EEB and the BAEM (1825). Miles (p.2) refers to the drain alongside it as Long Drove Drain (1976). The OS map of 1891 agrees and calls the road Long Drove. See map. The original OS map calls it Black Drove.

Merehirne: inquisition at Gosberton, 1294; reported by Wheeler p.246. – description consistent with this being Tongue End, TF155187.

Moor Field: around TF100228, E of the Turnpike Road (A15), N of Dyke hamlet W of Car Dyke BAEM. See map and footnote 4.

The Moor: an early enclosure, probably one near the middle of Moor Field, Dyke. See footnote 12.

Mortar Pits: TF104198. S of the head of navigation on the Bourne Eau and E of the diverted Car Dyke (BAEM & EEB).

Morton Mear: adjacent to Moor Field, Dyke. Mentioned in 1720: footnote 8. This is probably the ‘boundary’ meaning of mere (OED Mere, mear 1.) rather than a shallow lake. It will have been the boundary between Bourne and Morton parishes. See footnote 8.

Morton Road: the main road from Dyke, leading to Morton (1720: footnote 14). Now part of the A15.

New Dike: the dike along the parish boundary between Dike and Morton fens. The original Ordnance Survey calls it Dyke River but it was referred to as New Dike in the reign of Elizabeth I (Wheeler p.250 ¶3)..

Newlands: around TF109202, between A151 & Bourne Eau. Between Cherryholt Road and Friar Bar Pastures. The E boundary was the dike at easting TF1126 (OS Pathfinder 856 1:25 000 1988 & EEB).

North Fen Pastures: around TF161196, NE of Bourne Eau & NW of River Glen, at the S end of Twenty Drove’s extension S of Twenty (EEB).

North Field: around TF090214, NW of Bourne, W of A15. (BAEM & EEB). See map.

Nutto Field: around TF100220, SW of Dyke, between A15 & Car Dyke. See map. Called Nutts Field by EEB but amended to Nutto in pencil.

Our Lady’s Chapel: at the turning gates, in the parish churchyard. (Hickman ¶ 381), 1533/4.

Park Closes: around TF082194, by the A6121, W of Bourne. EEB regards this, including land W of the A6121, as part of Bourne West Field.

The Pound: an enclosure for stray livestock. On the N side of the modern Spalding Road. See OS map.

Quinto Field: around TF093218, N, E & SE of Cawthorpe & W of A15. (BAEM) See map. EEB divides it into Quinto Field and Dog Hill Field.

The Rest: a boarding house for seasonal workers at Tongue End. See OS map of 1892.

Rosecraft or Rosecroft: in Moor Field, Dyke (1720. See footnote 7).

Scotten Dike: a dike running parallel with The Car Dyke between TF108204, Spalding Road/ Meadow Drove junction, and Rippingale Running Dike, draining the upland ends of he fens, with drains at intervals, carrying its water to the South Forty Foot Drain. New Scotten Dike: the name given by EEB to the Gravel Dike/Gravel Drain, in Dyke Meadow (OS Pathfinder 856 1:25 000 1988).

Sheepcote Close: EEB plots 93 & 107. TF093197, E & W of Manor Lane SW of the castle site.

Sir Gilbert Heathcote’s Tunnel: TF149182 (OS 1:25 000 First Series TF11 1955). A drainage tunnel passing under the River Glen. It permits the drainage of Bourne South, Northorpe and Thurlby fens as part of Deeping Fen (Miles). Dugdale called it ‘Thurby Tunnell’ (map reproduced by Miles).

South Fen Bar: is mentioned by the Bourne Eau Navigation Act of 1781 (p.345). It is possibly the Fen Bridge but a little more likely to have been the western end of Long Road at its crossing of the Car Dyke.

South Field: around TF100195, extended from the SW corner of the parish to the Car Dyke. It broadened towards its E end to the S edge of the Cemetery site (EEB) or to The Austerby, including the cemetery site (BAEM).

Stone Pit: TF106192. W of the 90° bend in Tunnel Bank (BAEM & EEB), which was Stone Pit Road (EEB). The word ‘Pit’ is probably abraded away in BAEM

Sparrowsike: in or adjacent to Nutto Field (1720. footnote 21). In this context, a sike is a ditch through which a very small stream flows, perhaps drying out in summer (OED sike 1.). Rarely, up to 1669, it was also used to mean a stretch of meadow or field (OED sike 2.).

The Stong: EEB plot 256. TF113245, alongside the A151 opposite junction with Gobold’s Park Drove.

Stamp Close: EEB plot 106. TF092196, W side of Manor Lane SW of the castle site.

Stray Pastures: EEB plots 145 & 146. Around TF086205, Forest Avenue/Poplar Crescent.

Tallow: TF125200, N of Bourne Eau, where the railway later crossed Bourne Eau into the North Fen (Hayes & Lane fig. 83).

Tolham: seemingly, the segment of the River Glen between Tongue End and Guthram Gowt. See Brunne Ee.

The Tongue Pasture: EEB plot 255. TF111245, alongside the A151 W of The Stong.

Tunnel Bank: The road along the N edge of South Fen Pastures. It runs along the S bank of the Tunnel Drain which leads to Sir Gilbert Heathcote’s Tunnel. (Tunnel Bank name: OS 1:25 000 First Series TF11 1955. Called Cherry Holt Road by OS Pathfinder 877. 1986. It is not named by the estate maps.)

Turning Gates: in the parish churchyard. (Hickman ¶ 381), 1533/4.

Twenty: a hamlet developed from the mid-nineteenth century where the Spalding Road (formerly Long Drove EEB) crossed the line of the old Twenty Foot Drain.

Twenty Drove connects Bourne Drove, TF152123 to the A151, TF154207, at Twenty. It lies on the E bank of the old Twenty Foot Drain.

Old Twenty Foot Drain: Along the W margin of Twenty Drove (EEB). This part is now filled in (RJP1). This is one of the two parallel drains formed by Lord Lindsey’s drainage scheme (Dugdale The Map of Lindsey Level).

Wath Bridge: the crossing of the road from Dyke township to Wath Field, over the Car Dyke, TF106224. See map 1891. Not named by the estate maps and shown as a ford by BAEM, 1825. A wath was a ford (OED wath & wathstead).

Wath Close: Part of EEB plot 197. TF106223, adjoining Car Dyke, S of Wath Bridge, Dyke.

Wath Field: around TF110225, E of Car Dyke, W of Gravel Drain, S of New Dike & N of Dyke Drove. See map

Wood Close: EEB plot 165, TF080224, adjoining Wood Lane.

Wood Lane: the lane from Cawthorpe towards Edenham. See Edenham Road and OS map.

Places in Bourne, mentioned in documents transcribed or summarized in the Bourne Archive; with the date of each document and a link to the transcription or summary.

Places Go to: C: D: E: F: M: R: W.

A ^

The Angel Hotel 1947

Aveland 1882

Hundred of Aveland 1809

B ^