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CROYDON BOURNE FLOWS. 
By BALDWIN LATHAM, 
Mem. Inst. C.E., Mem. Inst. M.E., F.G.S., F.S.S., E.R. MET. Soc., &C. 
Tue Author in this paper proposes first to deal with the 
historical notices of Bourne flows, and then to pass on 
to the circumstances that give rise to Bourne fluws, 
and to give particulars of some of the Bourne flows 
that have occurred at Croydon and its immediate 
neighbourhood. 
Croydon may be looked upon as a centre in the 
neighbourhood of which a number of Bourne flows 
have been recorded: for example, what is called the 
Croydon Bourne flowing down the Caterham Valley ; 
the Bourne which makes its appearance at Marlpit 
Lane in the Brighton Road Valley at Smitham 
Bottom ; a Bourne which used to flow in the Wickham 
Valley below Kent Gate; and Bourne flows which 
occur at Carshalton, Cheam, Nonsuch Park, and 
Epsom. 
The early history of the Croydon Bourne flows is 
very much mixed up with those occurring in other 
parts of the country, and will be considered in connec- 
tion with them. It is probable that a Bourne flow 
Bourne flows 
in the 
neighbourhood 
of Croydon. 
Early history 
of Croydon 
Bourne. 
