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BOURNE
Lincolnshire England
in
Words and Pictures

WRITTEN, RESEARCHED AND PHOTOGRAPHED

by Rex Needle

Population 16,000 and 6,500 homes (estimated 2016), 71 listed buildings, town hall, corn exchange, seven churches, town mayor and town council with 15 members returned every four years.

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Photograph of the Week

Photographed by Rex Needle
Springtime in Bourne Wood

The town's most beautiful natural amenity is Bourne Wood, 400 acres of forest managed by the Forestry Commission for timber production, nature conservation and recreation, and is open to the public at all times with many secluded paths that attract some 150,000 visitors each year. The tree cover is a mixture of broadleaf and conifer of all ages, their diversity creating ideal conditions for a wide variety of flora and fauna, and one of the best times to visit is in springtime when the woodland can be seen at its best.

FEATURE OF THE WEEK
A passion for speed ends in tragedy

ALSO
Picnic party to mark the Queen's birthday
Historic England chooses Bourne War Memorial

BOURNE IN PAST TIMES
Archive photographs of the town as it was
Cuckoo Bush Cottage in 1910
Family history
Seeking your Bourne ancestors

OTHER RECENT ARTICLES
A grand royal occasion 120 years ago
New role for an old mill by the stream
Cobbler's son became knight of the realm

THE BOURNE PICTURE ARCHIVE
A collection of almost 1,000 images
from town and country

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A PORTRAIT OF BOURNE

CD-ROM cover

This definitive history of Bourne compiled on
CD-ROM supersedes all others, with more than two million words of text and over 6,000 photographs chronicling its origins as a settlement to the present day, listing the places and the people together with accounts of the progress of agriculture, religion, education, health, public services and buildings, and in addition, there are short illustrated histories of 60 surrounding villages. For more information see
A Portrait of Bourne

A BRIEF HISTORY OF BOURNE
An introduction to this town originally published in 2012, an account
of how Bourne was established in the earliest times and tracing its development through to the present day.
This is also available on CD-ROM.
TALES OF BOURNE FROM PAST TIMES
A substantial book about the history of this town running
to 200 pages with 150 photographs both modern and contemporary
BRIEF LIVES OF BOURNE PEOPLE
Fifty biographies of the great and the good