Web

• A history of the Forestry Commission Archived 17 April 2012 at the Wayback Machine, owner of Bourne Wood but not of those nearby (except Fox Wood).
• A history of British forestry.
• Wildlife in Bourne Wood.
• Dole Wood, Thurlby.

Paper

• Ordnance Survey 1:25 000 First Series, Sheet TF02 (Edenham). 1955.
• Institute of Geological Sciences. One-Inch Series, Sheet 143 Drift Edition (Bourne). 1967.
• Morgan, P. & Thorn, C. ed. Domesday Book, volume 31, Lincolnshire Parts one and two. Phillimore, Chichester. 1986. ISBN 0-85033-598-1 or ISBN 0-85033-599-X.
• Bevis, T. ed. Hereward and De Gestis Herwardi Saxonis. In English with commentary. Westrydale Press. 1981. ISBN 0-901680-28-1. (The Peterborough Hereward Story: original text directly translated.)
• Platts, G. Land and People in Medieval Lincolnshire. Chapter 4. History of Lincolnshire Vol. 4. History of Lincolnshire Committee, Lincoln. 1985. ISBN 0-902668-03-X. (Medieval agriculture and forestry in a parish near Bourne.)
• Benn, D. I. and Evans, D. J. A. Glaciers and Glaciation. Arnold. London. 1998. ISBN 0-340-65303-5 or ISBN 0-340-58431-9. Paragraph 3.2.4.4. (Proglacial Lakes)
• Venables, E. Bourne, its Castle and its Abbey. Lincs & Notts Architectural and Archaeological Society. Vol. XX, 1889. Cited by Birkbeck, J. D. in A History of Bourne. Lanes. Bourne. 1970. (Endowment of Bourne Abbey)
• Backhouse, J. The Luttrell Psalter. The British Library. 1989. ISBN 0-7123-0176-3. (depictions of C14 field work.)
• Field, J. Learning Through Labour: Training, unemployment and the state, 1890–1939, University of Leeds. 1992. ISBN 0-900960-48-5 (work camps)
• (FNQ), Miller, S. H. transcriber, and Sweeting, W. D. translator, The Exploits of Hereward the Saxon, a serial supplement in Fenland Notes and Queries (1895–97)