Westbourne
English edit
Etymology edit
From Old English west + burna (“bourne”).
Proper noun edit
Westbourne
- 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.
- An area in the borough of the City of Westminster, Greater London near Bayswater and Paddington (OS grid ref TQ2581). Another name used here is Westbourne Park.
- A suburb of Bournemouth, Dorset, England (OS grid ref SZ0791).
- A suburb of Ipswich, Suffolk, England (OS grid ref TM1445).
- A village and civil parish of Chichester district, West Sussex, England (OS grid ref SU7507).
- An unincorporated community in Manitoba, Canada.
- An unincorporated community in Campbell County, Tennessee, United States.