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Charming thatched cottages on Bourn's High Street. These days, Bourn is probably best known for Bourn Hall clinic, renowned the world over for its pioneering work with test-tube babies.

In 1931, the widow of Stafford Bourne (the son of one of the founders of Bourne & Hollingsworth's store in London) sold Garston Manor to Benskins the brewers, who transferred it to the North West Metropolitan

The Bourne stream runs through the area of Lower, Middle and Upper Bourne, joining the River Wey at Moor Park.

Bourne, at the junction where two Roman roads met, had a Roman station to guard the Car Dyke, the great Roman dyke 56 miles long and still surviving for long stretches.

This picture should more properly be captioned 'The Bourne from Besbury.' In the foreground lies Wimberley Mill, run in 1900 by the Critchley family as a pin factory.

Bourne, at the junction where two Roman roads met, had a Roman station to guard the Car Dyke, the great Roman dyke 56 miles long and still surviving for long stretches.

Though smarter and more affluent today, much of St Mary Bourne is as it was when this photograph was taken.

Bournemouth's Square stands at the very heart of the town astride the River Bourne.

Taken from the end of the promenade by the Bourne Arms, the scene shows the once-busy steam ferry arriving from Fleetwood across the Wyre estuary.

This view looks north along the A15 towards the church of St Guthlac and Bourne.

The Golden Lion, possibly an 18th-century pub, faces the lane that leads up to Bourn Hall.

In 1810, Lewis Tregonwell built a holiday home on lonely heathland, close to the mouth of the tiny River Bourne.

This was once a place where sheep were washed in a stream (bourne), hence the name. Shipbourne is a very attractive open village with a large green.

Most of the buildings in St Mary Bourne are built of brick and flint. The church of St Peter stands in the village.

The Primitive Methodist movement was officially founded in Tunstall, in 1811, by Hugh Bourne and William Clowes. It was here that the movement's first chapel was built.

Bournemouth's Square stands at the very heart of the town astride the River Bourne.

A neat Austin 8 is here heading for St Mary Bourne. Joseph Blount from nearby Rookery Farm had a horse called Tinker which could be hired to help carts up Hurstbourne Hill.

The movement's birthplace was at Mow Cop, Staffordshire, where Hugh Bourne and William Clowes held their first meetings in 1807.

The renowned Bourne End Regatta was based here, established in 1897, with the club house to the right of Shaw's boat works.

Its name, the white bourne, means the white stream. St John the Baptist's church sits in a wonderfully peaceful setting here.

neighbouring countryside, began with the early construction of villa residences, each with its own garden - as suggested by Dr Granville - along the back of the clifftops and on the slopes above the Bourne

Bournemouth's Square stands at the very heart of the town, astride the Bourne Stream.

Apart from the areas around the mouth of the Bourne Stream, much of Bournemouth was built to the rear of the long line of cliffs, necessitating many stairways down to the beach for energetic visitors

The Square stands at the very heart of the town, astride the River Bourne.