The Bourne that flows out of the spring fed pond to the north of Duncombe Wood, and then flows north to the corner of Coombe Road near the village, has run started to run again. It stopped on 16/06/20 as the very dry summer set in. The dates of stopping and starting vary every year, depending on rainfall. In the wet summer of 2014 it did not stop at all.
(A bourne is an intermittent stream , flowing from a spring. Frequent in chalk and limestone country where the rock becomes saturated with winter rain, that slowly drains away until the rock becomes dry, when the stream ceases)
