Bourne Rivulet
county:
coords:
Hampshire
SU4445
parish:
county:
Hurstbourne Tarrant
Hampshire
BOURNE RIVULET
Thus on the OS 1 to 50000 map. The stream referred to in the name of HURSTBOURNE, a right tributary of the Test.
The place is described in text Cobbett 1830
Period - 19th century, early
... A bourne, in the language of our forefathers, seems to be a river, which is, part of the year, without water. There is one of these bournes down this pretty valley. It has, generally, no water till towards Spring, and then it runs for several months. ...
...
I had been three times at UPHUSBAND before, and had, as my readers will, perhaps, recollect, described the BOURNE here, or the brook. It has, in general, no water at all in it, from August to March. There is the bed of a little river; but no water. In March, or thereabouts, the water begins to boil up, in thousands upon thousands of places, in the little narrow meadows, just above the village; that is to say, a little higher up the valley. When the chalk hills are full; when the chalk will hold no more water; then it comes out at the lowest spot near these immense hills and becomes a rivulet first, and then a river. But, until this visit to Uphusband (or Hurstbourne Tarrant, as the map calls it), little did I imagine, that this rivulet, dry half the year, was the head of the RIVER TESTE, which, after passing through Stockbridge and Rumsey, falls into the sea near Southampton.
- river - Hampshire
Period - 1780s
- river - Hampshire
Period - 1740s
- river - Hampshire
Period - 1690s-1720s
- river - Hampshire
- river - Hantshire
- river - Hamshire
Period - 1590s-1600s
- river - Southamtoniae
otherwise: Hurstbourne; Husseburn; Hesseburna
joins River Test below Whitchurch; note places Hurstbourne Priors and Hurstbourne Tarrant
