Bourne Archive:
BAEM: Abbey
http://boar.org.uk/ghiwxs7BAEM(pic3.htm Latest edit 6 Feb 2011.
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and picture ©R.J.PENHEY 2008.
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Bourne Abbots Estate Map: Detail of the Vicinity of The Abbey
South Street and the Abbey
Lawn. Detail
from the Bourne Abbots Estate Map
of 1825.
The detail shows South Street
on the western side. The mill, later known as Baldock’s Mill is shown stippled. It stands on the
site of the castle’s mill, towards the south-eastern end of the castle site. By
this stage, its tail race lay in a culvert under the road, as it does today. In
the map, the Bourne Eau still leads from it, through the garden of the vicar’s
eighteenth century house. The river is shown continuing between the garden of
the house (plot 57),
now known as Bourne Eau House and a yard or road leading to the
Vicarage and the west door of the abbey. Access to the west side (back) of
Abbey House is likely but unproved. Having passed under the entrance to the
yard and part of the house, the river appears more faintly where it passes
through the grey/green colour code of the directly-managed Pochin property,
adjoining the late George Pochin’s house (The Abbey)
and its sheep lawn (The Abbey Lawn). At the southern edge, it passes
close to the abbey fish ponds having taken a tortuous route, dictated by its original
layout as a boundary around the monastic abbey buildings (RJP3). The street in the north ran
eastwards towards Eastgate, originally from the castle gate.
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