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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.
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 first week. Originally the branch line was served by a third platform on the west side of the station.
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.
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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, [1] on the Grand Union Canal [2] that runs between London and Birmingham and at the confluence of the Chiltern chalk stream, the Bourne Gutter and the River Bulbourne.
A 2014 Cape Cod Commission report identified Bourne Rotary as a Barnstable County high-crash location using 2006 to 2008 state transportation data. Bourne Rotary $1.8M upgrade begins this spring ...
On the Monday before Easter, an unusual auction takes place in Bourne to let the grazing rights of the Whitebread Meadow. [92] Bidding takes place while two boys race toward the Queen's Bridge in Eastgate, the end of which dash is equivalent to the falling of the gavel. The whole affair dates back to the 1742 will of William Clay.
Although the candle auction went out of favour in the 17th century, [2] it was still not uncommon in the sale of ships at Lloyd's Coffee House in London in the early 19th century. For instance, Sarah Christiana, among other ships, was offered for sale in a candle auction in 1828. [3] A few candle auctions are still held today as a form of ...
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