Description
Bourn, a village and a parish in Cambridgeshire, very pleasantly situated on an affluent of the river Cam, 2 miles SSE of Caxton, and 1 1/2 mile NE from Old North Road station on the L. & N.W.R., with a post, money order, and telegraph office under Cambridge. Acreage of parish, 4175 ; population, 785. Bourn Hall, formerly the seat of the De-la-Warr family, is an Elizabethan mansion surrounded by a park of about 20 acres. The manor belonged to Morcar the Saxon, and passed to the De-la-Warrs, and a castle on it was destroyed in the Civil Wars of the time of Henry III. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Ely; net value, ?163 with residence. Patron, Christ College, Cambridge. The church is a spacious building of stone in the Transition, Early English, and Later styles.