eylebournn.
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c1480 J. Warkworth Chron. 24 [mentions an intermittent stream near St. Albans, called Wemere (interpreted ‘woo watere’), the flowing of which was ‘a tokene of derthe, or of pestylence, or of grete batayle’; and adds:] Also there has ronne dyverse suche other wateres, that betokenethe lykewyse; one at Lavesham in Kent, and another byside Canturbury called Naylborne.
1677 R. Plot Nat. Hist. Oxford-shire 30 Of these [springs] there are many in the County of Kent, which..they call Nailbournes there.
1719 J. Harris Hist. Kent 174 Such..as in this County they call an Eylebourn; (or vulgarly a Nailbourn) which is a Spring that rises all of a sudden out of the Ground, runs a while like a Torrent and then disappears.
1719 J. Harris Hist. Kent 240 There is a famous Eylebourn which rises in this Parish and some~times runs but a little way..now and then it goes with a very strong Stream.
1727 Lewis Faversham 4 The brakish Creek, into which a spring or Nail-bourne from Ospringe falls.
1736 in S. Pegge Alphabet of Kenticisms (E.D.S.) 38
1887 W. D. Parish & W. F. Shaw Dict. Kentish Dial. Eylebourne, Nailbourn, an intermittent spring.
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