keelebourne

Updated: January 1, 2026

The earliest mention of this locality is when one Godwyn, a hermit, retired here in the reign of Henry I., and "built a cell near a little rivulet, called in different records Cuneburne, Keelebourne, Coldbourne, and Kilbourne, on a site surrounded with wood."

G. E. (Geraldine Edith) Mitton - Hampstead and Marylebone: The Fascination of London