The name refers to the end of the river (bourne being an Old English term for 'river'), and it would be the mouth of the River Wye that this is derived from.
In the early nineteenth century, the settlement known as Bourne End was a hamlet of Wooburnparish, along with others such as Spring Gardens, Eghams Green, CoresEnd, Heavens Lea and Upper Bourne End.
Bourne End has two primary schools; Westfield, which was a first school until 1995, and is now a special school; and Claytons, formerly a middle school, which merged with Westfield.
Cores can be embryonic, such as a piece of natural unprepared raw material with scar, or scars, reflecting the detachment of one or more flakes" (Crabtree 1982.
Damage to this end of the core, in the form of crushing or removals, is rarely encountered.
Frequently, preparation flakes are removed from the platform to adjust the angle of detachment (Coulson 1986, 21).Although this core type is considered to be primarily for the manufacture of blades, numbers of flakes are also produced during the core preparation and correction stages.