Talk:Westbourne, West Sussex

I'd like to add that it was named westbourne to differentiate it from eastbourne (both in sussex) but ive no idea if that is really true?

If you can find a source please edit

--195.137.34.85 23:39, 25 December 2005 (UTC)
 * I don't know your identity (pity!) but I would be willing to bet that this is NOT true. At the time of "naming" Eastbourne as we know it would have hardly existed. The suffix -bourne in the South Down area means a stream that is seasonal, coming out of the lower part of the chalk hills. A settlement in ancient times would have sprung up there to take advantage of the water supply. There are plenty of examples all the way along the Downs of names ending in -bourne and in fact Eastbourne doesn't really meet the original meaning! Peter Shearan 07:42, 21 January 2006 (UTC)

Merge proposal
Guidelines at WikiProject UK geography/How to write about settlements state that ideally the civil parish should be the catch-all article, avoiding single line articles on every village and landmark within the parish.

Therefore, I suggest that villages within the parish with a one or two sentence article, ie Woodmancote, West Sussex (Chichester District) to be merged and redirected to this parish article. ++ MortimerCat (talk) 07:52, 19 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Removing merge proposal as both are seperate settlements and there has been zero interest in the merge (nearly 3 years been proposed). AssociateAffiliate (talk) 12:12, 14 March 2012 (UTC)

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