LAMBOURN  , a

market town in the Newbury parliamentary division of Berkshire, England, 65 m . W. of London, the terminus of the Lambourn Valley light railway from Newbury . Pop . (1901) 2071 . It lies high up the narrow valley of the Lambourn, a tributary of the Kennet famous for its trout-fishing, among the Berkshire Downs . The church of St Michael is cruciform and principally late Norman, but has numerous additions of later periods and has been considerably altered by modern restoration . The inmates of an almshouse founded by John Estbury, c . 1500, by his desire still hold service daily at his tomb in the church . A Perpendicular market-cross stands without the church . The town has agricultural trade, but its chief importance is derived from large training stables in the neighbourhood . To the north of the town is a large group of tumuli known as the Seven Barrows, ascertained by excavation to be a British burial-place .