Hasted’s - 
“ History of 
Kent,” 1798. 
Bournes at 
Bishopsbourne, 
Kingston, 
Barham, and 
Drelingore, 
Liddon Spout. 
Great storm in 
Canterbury 
1272. 
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appears and is no more visible till it rises again at the 
end of Croydon Town near Haling-Pound, where with 
great rapidity it rushes into the river near that Church. 
I must not here forget to observe, that the part of this 
county where this rises and passes along is so very dry 
‘that the Rusticks are obliged to drive their cattle a great 
Way for water. It began.to run a little before Christmas, 
and ceased about the end of May at that glorious Afra of 
English Liberty the year 1660. In 1665 it preceded 
the Plague in London and the Revolution in 1688.” 
In. Hasted’s ‘* History of Kent,” published in 1798 
by Edward Hasted, F.R.S. and S.A., there are 
several references to Bourne flows as at Bishopsbourne, 
Kingston adjoining Bishopsbourne, and Barham. He 
also describes a nailbourne that rises from some springs 
at Drelingore ‘“‘ which” (he says) “‘in very wet and 
windy weather increase to the height of ten feet and 
run through the lands to the head of the River Dour at 
Chilton, commonly beginning in February and ending 
in March or April, at which time the wells of fifteen or 
sixteen fathom depth are full; and the country people 
entertain a notion that this water has a subterraneous 
communication with the waters called Liddon Spouts 
in the cliffs at Hougham at least four miles from 
hence.” 
He refers again to Lyden Spouts and the belief that 
the Nailbourne at Drelingore in Alkham communicates 
subterraneously with these spouts. 
He further says that in Canterbury in 1272 there 
occurred: * A great storm of thunder and lightning, 
and a sudden inundation ; the waters breaking forth 
seemingly from the caverns of the earth, overflowed the 
greatest part of the city where they were never before 
known to come,” 
