The town of Bourne has a long history of a settlement founded around the spring or the Well Head pool known as St Peter’s Pool, and within the pool are seven artesian wells.
Bourne means water, and the water had medicinal qualities and was sold all over the world before tap water was introduced Bourne Abbey Church dates back to 1138 and was founded by Baldwin Fitzgilbert whose daughter married Hugh Wake. The first vicar was paid a salary of £4 a year. When it was a monastery one of the monks was Robert Manning who was the founder of the English language.