Westbourne

English

Etymology

From Old English west + burna (“bourne”).

Proper noun

Westbourne

  1. A river, the River Westbourne in London, England, which is now placed underground.
    • 2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 31:
      The river carried in the pipe at Sloane Square is the Westbourne, and the pipe is said to shake in a rainstorm. Behind one of the innocent-looking doors on the platform at Sloane Square is a horizontal metal grille, beneath which is a pump, working away in the seething tributaries of the Westbourne.
  2. An area of the borough of the City of Westminster, Greater London near Bayswater and Paddington (OS grid ref TQ2581). Another name used here is Westbourne Park. [1]
  3. A suburb of Bournemouth, Dorset, England (OS grid ref SZ0791).
  4. A suburb of Ipswich, Suffolk, England (OS grid ref TM1445).
  5. A village and civil parish in Chichester district, West Sussex, England (OS grid ref SU7507). [2]
  6. A community in the Municipality of WestLake-Gladstone, Manitoba, Canada.
  7. An unincorporated community in Campbell County, Tennessee, United States.

References

  1. ^ Ward map (Westminster)
  2. ^ Parish map (West Sussex)
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