On Maps
The finest and most intelligible map of the whole course of the Westbourne, superimposed over the Victorian street plan, is found in an article by J. G. Waller, published in the Transactions of the London and Middlesex Archaeological Society, vol VI (1882) pp 272–279.
Waller's map shows that the stream never ran further west than the easternmost extremity of Westbourne Grove, (an east-west road ending at Queensway where the course lay). Westbourne Grove is, as its name suggests, west of the bourne.
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