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Wood View, BOURNE, PE10 9NL

The neat lines of Victorian terraced houses known as Woodview were built circa 1898 for working class families to rent, the first mass housing development in Bourne and a forerunner of the council houses we know today. There are two rows of yellow brick houses known as Eastern and Western Villas with the original cast iron name plates still fixed to the end of each terrace. There are 69 houses in all, a mix of two, three and four bedroom properties, which were bought during the early 20th century by the old Bourne Urban District Council, transferring to South Kesteven District Council during the re-organisation of local government in 1974 and this authority continues to administer the properties although many have since been sold to sitting tenants and are now in private ownership.

A path between two of the sections of the Woodview Terrace. See Image for the same path heading the other way. There is more to this path than meets the eye. It aligns, on the map, with that N-S portion of Burghley Street seen in Image and the edge of the plot of the sorting office and the Baptist Church (Image). I suspect this is the fossilised remains of an old land boundary - explaining the building of Woodview terraces in two stages.

Turn 180 degrees from the vantage point in Image and the path continues to St Gilberts road. There is more to this path than meets the eye. It aligns, on the map, with that N-S portion of Burghley Street seen in Image and the edge of the plot of the sorting office and the Baptist Church (Image). I suspect this is the fossilised remains of an old land boundary - explaining the building of Woodview terraces in two stages.

These are behind the terraced row known as Woodview, taken from the rear access that now uses "Woodview" as the streetname

The original 'eastern villas' of Woodview form the terrace on the left, and the modern houses built on their former gardens form Burghley court on the right. It is very much to the council's credit that they matched the brickwork colours so well when building the new homes.

Looking in the opposite direction from Image there is still access along the remainder of the path.

This house can only be approached across the former footpath in the foreground, which both SKDC and LCC declared to be each other's problem and not a right of way.

A former footpath behind the houses in Burghley Court was found not to be a public right of way by the various local authorities and has been adopted by an adjacent householder.

There are three houses in this short terrace in Burghley Court. But there are six doors. Each house has a front door and a "back" door next to it. There are no back doors at the, err, back. And nowhere to keep the imposed squalor of the wheely bins. We are soon to have three per household to somehow store.

The little path in Image emerges behind the Buffs Hall Image