Drelingore 
Bourne 
(Alkham). 
Bourne flow 
Langley, near 
Maidstone, 
1472. 
Bourne flow, 
Lewisham, 
1472. 
Addington, 
near Maid- 
stone, Bourne 
flow. 
Lewisham 
Bourne, 1472. 
Ospringe 
Bourn, 1674. 
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Alkham. ‘In this parish is an Eylebourn rising in 
a bottom, at a place called Dillingdore*, whose Irrup- 
tion the Inhabitants will have to be certain presage, 
either of some great Mortality, or Dearth and Scarcity 
of Provisions. Indeed from no apparent Head or 
Spring, it sends out sometimes such vast Quantities of 
water, that a Vessel of considerable burden may be 
borne by the Stream, which usually goes down to 
Chilton, and so by the Dover River finds an outlet into 
the sea.”’ 
Langley.f ‘‘ The spring or bourn here in the Park 
did newly break out of the Earth in the year 1472 as 
did another the same year in Lewesham.”’ 
Then he refers to Addington, near Maidstone, and 
says: 
“ Here is an Eyle-bourn at this place which people 
eall Ere-well, breaking out once in Seven or Eight years, 
which they will have to presage Deaths and Dearths, 
and I know not what. When it comes they dig a 
Dyke for it and turn it along by the Highway-side ; 
and when the water mingles with that of their little 
Trout Rivulet it makes these Trouts Red, which other- 
wise are White.”’ 
He also says: An Hylebourn or Nailbourne broke 
out in 1472 at Lewsham. 
Ospringe. ‘‘ In February 167? one began here but 
dricd up before Michaelmas following, and another 
arose in February 1712 about a hundred yards above 
the Spring-Head and with so great a stream as that it 
was troublesome to the Road and the Surveyors of the 
Highways were forced to cut through several pieces of 
* Now called Drelingore. 
+ Near Maidstone. - 
