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The Parliamentary Gazetteer’s Summary of Bourne, 1843.

BOURN

BOURN, a parish in the wapentake of Aveland, union of Bourn, county of Lincoln ; 97 miles north by west of London, and 35 south-south-east of Lincoln, connected with Boston by means of a canal for boats of ten tons burden. It comprises the hamlets of Bourne with Tongue-End, Cawthorpe, and Dyke. It is in a flat country, in the vicinity of the fens, and takes its name from a spring of remarkably pure water, called Bournewell-head, the source of a small river. The town consists chiefly of one street about a mile and a quarter in length. There is some trade in wool and malt, and leather is made extensively. The market is on Saturday, and fairs for horses and cattle are held on September 30^th and October 29^th, There is a branch of the Stamford and Boston banking company here. The sessions for the parts of Kesteven are held here; and the county-magistrates hold petty-sessions for the hundreds of Aveland, Ness, and Beltisloe, in the town-hall, which is a fine building erected one the site of one originally built by the Lord-Treasurer Burleigh. Bourn is one of the poling-places for the members for the parts of Kesteven. – Living, a discharged vicarage in the archd. and dio. of Lincoln ; valued at £8 ; gross income £320. Patron, in 1835, the honourable W. Cavendish. The church is a large and handsome Gothic edifice, consisting of a lofty chancel, a nave, with side aisles, and a short transept. The interior is partly in the later style, and contains some interesting monuments and a finely enriched font. The great and small tithes, the property of the lay-impropriators and vicar, were commuted in 1766. The Baptists and Wesleyan Methodists have places of worship here. The Baptist church was formed in 1688, the Wesleyan Methodist in 1811. There are eleven daily schools in this parish, one of which is endowed with £30, and another, a National school, with £42 per annum. There are also two Sunday school, and an hospital for 6 men, and an alms-house for 6 women, founded and endowed in 1653 by Thomas Trollope, Esq. – Here were formerly a castle of considerable extent of which very slight traces now remain, and a monastery, founded in 1138, of which the site alone is visible. From various antiquities discovered here, Bourn has been supposed to have been of some importance under the Romans. Bourne was the birth-place of the celebrated but unfortunate Dr. Dodd, who was born in 1729, and executed for forgery in 1777. Pop., in1801, 1,644 ; in 1831, 2,589. Houses 511. Acres 8,190. A. P. £10,139. Poor rates, in 1837, £750. Pop. of the hamlet, in 1801, 1,474 ; in 1831, 2,355. Houses 467. A workhouse has been erected here for the union of Bourn by the poor-law commissioners, at an expense of £6,700, capable of accommodating 300 persons. The Bourn poor-law union comprehends 37 parishes, embracing an area of 133 square miles ; with a population returned in 1831, at 17,174. The average annual expenditure on the poor of this district, during the three years preceding the formation of the union, was £8,506. Expenditure, in 1838, £4,256.

DYKE, a hamlet in the parish of Bourne, county of Lincoln ; 2⅛ miles north-north-east of Bourn. Houses 29. Pop. in 1821, 144 ; in 1831, 143. Other returns with the parish.

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