 | John Stow - 1842 - 254 pages
...aforesaid. Oldborne, or Hilborne, was the like water, breaking out about the place where now the bars do stand, and it ran down the whole street till Oldborne bridge, and into the river of the Wells, or Turnemill brook. This bourn was likewise long since stopped up at the head, and in other... | |
 | Richard Stephen Charnock - 1859 - 344 pages
...(ho'bern). "Oldborne or Hilbourne was the like water breaking out about the place where now the bars do stand, and it ran down the whole street till Oldborne Bridge, and into the river of the wells, or turnemill brook. This bourne was likewise long since stopped up at the head and in other... | |
 | John Hollingshead - 1874 - 384 pages
...small brook, called ' Old-bourne,' the god-father of Holborn. ' Oldbourne, or Hilborne,' says Stow, ' broke out about the place where the bars do now stand, and ran down the whole street till Oldbourne Bridge, and into the river of the Wells or Turnemill Brook.... | |
 | Henry Benjamin Wheatley - 1891 - 646 pages
...stone bridge over the Fleet. Oldborne, or Hilborne, breaking out about the place where now the Bars do stand, and it ran down the whole street till Oldborne Bridge, and into the river of the Wells, or Turnemill Brook. This bourn was likewise long since stopped up at the head, and in other... | |
 | Hampstead Antiquarian and Historical Society - 1901 - 130 pages
...— " Oldborne or Hilborne, was the like water, breaking out about the place where now the bars do stand, and it ran down the whole street till Oldborne bridge, and into the river of the wells or Turnomill brook. This bourn was likewise long since stopped up at the head, and in other... | |
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Stow thus describes this locality : — "Old borne or Hilborne, breaking out about the place where now the Bars do stand, and it ran down the whole street till Oldborne Bridge, and into the river of the Wells or Turnemill Brook. 