Talk:Bourne–Morton Canal

Old Ea
I don't have access to really old maps or texts, so I can't comment on the 'Old Ea', except to say that it is not the Bourne Old Ea.

Wheeler gives the name Bourne Old Ea to what is now the Bourne Eau and Bourne Ea or Brunne Ea to that part of the Glen downstream of Kate's Bridge. He then quotes Dugdale, an and act of Queen Elisabeth:
 * Brunne, River of Brunne Hee,Burne Alde Ee. In dugdale the Brunne Ee is describhed in the margin as 'now the Glene'...'Which had its course through the midst of the town of Pincbec.'  The 'Ware' Dyke is described as extending along 'the river of Burne Ee to Godramscote' in a commission of Sewers held at Hempringingham in Queen Elisabeth's time.

Wheeler has several other xxxxx old Ea but none that are just the Old Ea. Of course, he was writing in the 19th century, when the roman canal was forgotten or unknown, but he quotes Dugdale extensively and there seems to be no reference to the name from there.

--Robert EA Harvey (talk) 18:41, 17 January 2011 (UTC)