BOURNE, locally designated The Bourne, is an ecclesiastical parish, formed March 19,1875, from the civil parish of Farnham. It comprises the districts known as the Lower and the Middle Bourne, and lies between Frensham and Farnham, from which town it is one mile south, and is in the South Western division of the county, Farnham hundred, union and county court district, petty sessional division of Farnham, rural deanery of Farnham, archdeaconry of Surrey and diocese of Winchester. The church of St. Thomas on the Bourne, a plain stone building, was originally erected as a school, but subsequently altered and a chancel added, and was consecrated on St. Thomas’ day, 1869: in 1881 it was further enlarged by the addition of a south aisle and organ chamber: there are 280 sittings. The register dates from the year 1875. The living is a vicarage, gross yearly value £300 (of which £114 is a first charge upon the tithe rent-charge of Farnham, with residence, in the gift of the Archdeacon of Surrey, and held since 1875 by the Rev. Thomas William Sidebotham M.A. of Hertford College, Oxford. Here is a small Congregational chapel. The principal landowners are Mr. G. Trimmer and other residents of Farnham. The soil is gravel, subsoil, sand; the chief crops are hops, wheat and rye. The population in 1881 was about 1,000.

National School (mixed), built in 1869 & enlarged in 1875 for 150 children; average attendance, 120.