Meanings
- A locality and site of a medieval village in Lambourn parish, West Berkshire district, Berkshire, England (OS grid ref SU3378).
At Bockhampton the line re-crosses the Newbury-Lambourn road (this time on the level) and the now much-diminished River Lambourn, after which it makes its final climb at 1 in 63 and 1 in 100 to reach the terminus at Lambourn, which is approximately 450 ft. above sea-level.
1954 November, P. W. Gentry, “The Lambourn Valley Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 744
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