Editing Bournemouth (section)

==Toponymy==
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The first mention of Bournemouth comes in the [[Christchurch, Dorset|Christchurch]] [[cartulary]] of 1406, where a [[monk]] describes how a large fish ("uni magno piscis"), {{convert|18|ft|abbr=off}} long, was washed up at "La Bournemothe" in October of that year and taken to the Manor of [[Wick, Bournemouth|Wick]]; six days later, a portion of the fish was collected by a canon from [[Christchurch Priory]] and taken away as [[tithe]].<ref>A. McKinstry, ''The Village of Tuckton, 35,000 BC - 1926'' (Christchurch: Natula Publications, 2015), p. 12.</ref> "La Bournemowthe", however, was purely a geographic reference to the uninhabited area around the mouth of the small river which, in turn, drained the heathland between the towns of [[Poole]] and Christchurch.<ref name=AA52/><ref name=EE24/><ref name=AH7>Andrews & Henson (p.7)</ref> 

The word [[Bourne (stream)|''bourne'']], meaning a small stream, is a derivative of ''burna'', [[old English]] for a brook.<ref name=EE24>Edwards (p.24)</ref><ref name=AA51>Ashley & Ashley (p.51)</ref> From the latter half of the 16th century "Bourne Mouth" seems to be preferred, being recorded as such in surveys and reports of the period, but this appears to have been shortened to "Bourne" after the area had started to develop.<ref name=EE24/><ref name=AH7/> A travel guide published in 1831 calls the place "Bourne Cliffe" or "Tregonwell's Bourne" after its founder.<ref name=AA9>Ashley & Ashley (p.9)</ref> ''The Spas of England'',<ref name=":0">{{Cite book |last=Granville |first=A. B. |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/539370 |title=Spas of England and principal sea-bathing places |date=1971 |publisher=Adams and Dart |isbn=0-239-00085-4 |edition=[1st ed. reprinted] |location=Bath |oclc=539370}}</ref> published ten years later, calls it simply "Bourne"<ref name=EE39>Edwards (p.39)</ref> as does an 1838 edition of the ''Hampshire Advertiser''.<ref name=EE32>Edwards (p.32)</ref> In the late 19th century "Bournemouth" became predominant, although its two-word form appears to have remained in use up until at least the early 20th century, turning up on a 1909 ordnance map.<ref name=AA52>Ashley and Ashley (p.52)</ref><ref>Andrews and Henson (p.7)</ref> The [[Coat of arms of Bournemouth]] was first granted on 24 March 1891.