Bourn Brook, Cambridgeshire

Bourn Brook, Cambridgeshire

Bourn Brook is a minor tributary of the River Cam in Cambridgeshire.

It has its source near the village of Eltisley, 10 miles west of Cambridge, running east through Caxton, Bourn and Toft to join the Cam at Byron's Pool in Grantchester, where the poet, Lord Byron, is reputed to have swum.


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