Blackbourn was a

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, consisting of . Blackbourn hundred was situated in the north-west of Suffolk. Its northern boundary is the

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forming the border with

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, and the

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forms part of its western boundary. The hundred appears in the

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as ''Blachruna'' and ''Blackebrune'' meaning "black bourn", where a bourn is a stream. The stream in question is that which flows north through

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, Bardwell, and

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to the Little Ouse at Euston and is still known as the Black Bourn.

Parishes

Blackbourn Hundred consisted of the following 34 parishes:1841 Census

References

{{Authority control Hundreds of Suffolk Blackbourn Hundred