[2] Prof. J. Prestwich, Geol. Mag. 1864, p. 245.
[3] Sir J. Evans, Ancient Stone Implements, ch. xxiii.
[4] Worthington Smith, quoted by W. Whitaker, Geology of London, i. p. 345.
[5] Quart. Jour. Geol. Soc. xxxvi. p. 544.
[6] Whitaker, Geology of London, vol. i. p. 471.
[7] Also derived, according to some authorities, from “bourne,” a boundary.—Ed.
[8] Stanley, Memorials of Westminster Abbey, ch. i.
[9] Prof. Prestwich, Quart. Jour. Geol. Soc. xxviii. (1872),Proc. liii.
[10] For the history of the water-supply of London, the requirements of the metropolis, and the future prospects, see the Report of the Royal Commission of Inquiry presented in 1873.
[11] In June 1904 the undertakings of these seven Companies passed to the Metropolitan Water Board (constituted 1902), which took over their debts, liabilities, etc., and a month later the business of the New River Company passed to the same authority, which now controls the total water-supply of London.—Ed.