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Bourne End (other)
Bourne End is the name of more than one place. It is an old English name, referring to the point where two rivers join. Places In the United Kingdom: *Bourne End, Bletsoe, Bedfordshire, England *Bourne End, Cranfield, Bedfordshire, England *Bourne End, Buckinghamshire, England (Bourne End upon Thames) *Bourne End, Hertfordshire, England Other uses *Bourne End Academy, Bourne End, Buckinghamshire, England, UK; a secondary school *Bourne End railway station, Bourne End, Buckinghamshire, England, UK; *Bourne End Railway Bridge, Bourne End, Buckinghamshire, England, UK; over the River Thames See also * Wooburn and Bourne End, Buckinghamshire, England, UK; a civil parish * Bourne End rail crash (1945) at Bourne End turnout, Hemel, Hempstead, England, UK * * Bourne (other) Bourne may refer to: Places UK * Bourne, Lincolnshire, a town ** Bourne Abbey ** Bourne Eau ** Bourne Grammar School ** Bourne railway station * Bourne (electoral division), West Sussex * Bourne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bourne End, Bletsoe
Bletsoe is a village and civil parishes in England, civil parish in Bedfordshire, England. It is on the A6 road (Great Britain), A6, and about eight miles north of Bedford. The village has a small park, the former site of Bletsoe Castle and a church. Nearby places are Sharnbrook, Milton Ernest, Riseley, Bedfordshire, Riseley, Thurleigh, Odell, Bedfordshire, Odell, Souldrop, and Swineshead, Bedfordshire, Swineshead. The nearest town to Bletsoe is Bedford. The small Hamlet (place), hamlet of Bourne End, Bletsoe, Bourne End borders Bletsoe and is part of the civil parish. In 1086, Bletsoe parish was within the ancient Hundred (county division), hundred of Buckelowe. accessed 1 Jul 2017 The parish was added to the Hundred of Willey when the ancient hundred was parceled out. Bletsoe Castle was the birthplac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bourne End, Cranfield
Bourne may refer to: Places UK * Bourne, Lincolnshire, a town ** Bourne Abbey ** Bourne Eau ** Bourne Grammar School ** Bourne railway station * Bourne (electoral division), West Sussex * Bourne SSSI, Avon, a Site of Special Scientific Interest near Burrington, North Somerset * Bourne, a hundred in Farnham, Surrey * Bournes Green, a hamlet in Gloucestershire; also (separately) a suburb of Southend-on-Sea, Essex * Bourne Mill, Colchester, a National Trust property in Essex US * Bourne, Massachusetts, a town ** Bourne (CDP), Massachusetts, a census-designated place in the town ** Bourne High School ** Bourne station * Bourne, Oregon, a ghost town * Bourne Field, an ex-military airstrip on St. Thomas, US Virgin Islands People * Bourne (surname) * John Cooke Bourne, British artist, engraver and photographer * William Bourne (other) Fiction * Jason Bourne, a fictional character in novels by Robert Ludlum and the film adaptations * ''Bourne'', a series of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bourne End, Buckinghamshire
Bourne End is a village mostly in the parish of Wooburn, but partly in that of Little Marlow in Buckinghamshire, England. It is about five miles (8 km) south-east of High Wycombe and three miles (5 km) east of Marlow, near the boundary with Berkshire and close to where the Buckinghamshire River Wye empties into the Thames. History Bourne End's original location differed from today's established village centre, and was a half-mile downstream on the River Thames. The name refers to the end of the river (''bourne'' being an obsolete term for river), and derived from the mouth of the River Wye. Then a hamlet, it appears on Morden's 1722 map of Buckinghamshire as "Born end". It was noted in the 19th century, however, that the name had been corrupted to "Bone End", apparently through local mispronunciation and thence on official maps and documents. In 1858, the vicar of Wooburn succeeded in reversing the change, and the corrected name remains in use today. The length ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bourne End, Hertfordshire
Bourne End is a village in Hertfordshire, England. It is situated on the ancient Roman Akeman Street between Berkhamsted and Hemel Hempstead, on the former A41 London-Liverpool Trunk Route, on the Grand Union Canal that runs between London and Birmingham and at the confluence of the Chiltern chalk stream, the Bourne Gutter and the River Bulbourne. It is in the Dacorum Ward of Bovingdon, Flaunden and Chipperfield. History Bourne End formerly lay within the extended parish of Northchurch (Berkhamsted St. Mary). It was then known as the Hamlet (place), hamlet of Broadway. In 1909 the south-eastern part of Northchurch was separated into a new parish consisting of the hamlets of Sunnyside and Broadway. Bourne End/Broadway became a separate parish in 1915. Bourne End derives its name as it lies at the end of the Bourne Gutter, an irregularly flowing stream, at its confluence with the River Bulbourne. According to local tradition the Bourne Gutter is a Woe Water that only flows at ti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bourne End Academy
Bourne End Academy is a co-educational secondary school in Bourne End, Buckinghamshire, England. It is a secondary school which takes pupils from the age of 11 to 18. It is smaller than an average secondary school, with just over 800 pupils attending every year. History In September 1998 the school was awarded specialist school status as a Sports College and furthermore, in 2012, the school was awarded the status of a specialist Science College, by the Department for Education and Skills (DfES). In 2014, the school's multi-academy trust E-ACT downsized and 10 schools were re-brokered to other multi-academy trusts. It has since started expanding again. Pupils from E-ACT Burnham Park Academy, which was officially closed due to falling pupil numbers but E-ACT always had planned on merging the two schools, were offered the opportunity of transferring to Bourne End Academy. Facilities Bourne End Academy has a department for students on the autistic spectrum, the ARP (Additiona ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bourne End Railway Station
Bourne End railway station is a railway station in Buckinghamshire, England, that serves Bourne End, Buckinghamshire, Bourne End. It is on the Marlow Branch Line between and , down the line from Maidenhead and measured from . Services are provided by Great Western Railway (train operating company), Great Western Railway. The ticket office is open on weekday and Saturday mornings. There is a customer car park south of the railway station, station. The station has two platforms. History The station was originally named Marlow Road station. In 1874, Marlow Road station was renamed Bourne End to obviate confusion with the newly opened Marlow station. The station was opened in 1854 as part of the Wycombe Railway Company line between station and . To reach Bourne End, a wooden viaduct was built across Cockmarsh and a wooden bridge was built across the River Thames. In 1873, a line linking Bourne End with Marlow was opened to the public, with 1,700 tickets being sold in the f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bourne End Railway Bridge
Bourne End Railway Bridge is a railway bridge carrying the Marlow Branch Line, and a footpath over the River Thames in Bourne End, Buckinghamshire, England. It crosses the Thames on the reach between Cookham Lock and Marlow Lock. The bridge was originally constructed in wood by Isambard Kingdom Brunel Isambard Kingdom Brunel ( ; 9 April 1806 – 15 September 1859) was an English civil engineer and mechanical engineer who is considered "one of the most ingenious and prolific figures in engineering history", "one of the 19th-century engi ... as part of the Wycombe Railway, opened in 1854 and operated in broad gauge until 1870. The narrow spans were unpopular with river traffic and the bridge was reconstructed in steel in 1895. A footbridge, cantilevered out from the railway bridge was added in 1992, to take the Thames Path across the river; this substitutes for the historical towpath crossing point at Spade Oak ferry, about 1 km upstream of the bridge. In 20 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wooburn And Bourne End
Wooburn, or Wooburn and Bourne End, is a civil parish in Buckinghamshire, England. South-east of High Wycombe, it comprises the villages of Wooburn, Wooburn Green and Bourne End and the hamlets of Berghers Hill, Cores End, Hawks Hill, Widmoor and Wooburn Moor. The Buckinghamshire River Wye flows through the area, emptying into the River Thames The River Thames ( ), known alternatively in parts as the The Isis, River Isis, is a river that flows through southern England including London. At , it is the longest river entirely in England and the Longest rivers of the United Kingdom, s ... at Bourne End. In 2011 the parish had a population of 10,172. References External links Wooburn and Bourne End Parish Council Civil parishes in Buckinghamshire {{Buckinghamshire-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bourne End Rail Crash
The Bourne End rail crash occurred on 30 September 1945 when a sleeper train from Perth to London Euston derailed, killing 43. The cause was driver error, possibly compounded by ambiguous signalling regulations. Overview The train was the 15-coach overnight Perth to London Euston express hauled by LMS Royal Scot Class 4-6-0 No 6157 ''The Royal Artilleryman''.''British Rail Disasters'' publ. Ian Allan Publishing, 1996 Because of engineering work in Watford tunnel, it was scheduled to divert from the fast to the slow lines at Bourne End, near Hemel Hempstead. However, the driver failed to slow the train down in response to cautionary signals on the approach to the diversion, and it entered a turnout at nearly . The engine and the first six carriages overturned and fell down an embankment into a field; only the last three coaches remained on the rails. The morning was fine and sunny, and the driver, who was highly experienced with a particular reputation for being conscien ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
