Tongue End

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Tongue End
Lincolnshire
Location
Grid reference: TF161187
Location: 52°45’13"N, 0°16’48"W
Data
Population: 41
Post town: Spalding
Postcode: PE11
Dialling code: 01775
Local Government
Council: South Holland
Parliamentary
constituency:
South Holland
and The Deepings

Tongue End is a small village in Kesteven, Lincolnshire. It is situated four miles east of Bourne and six miles south-west of Spalding, and alongside the Counter Drain that runs between Baston and Pode Hole.

Tongue End comprises Victorian red-brick farmworkers' cottages and early 20th-century former council houses.[1] It once had a village school (built in 1876), and three public houses.[1][2]

The name is said to refer to the shape of the land between the rivers Glen and Bourne Eau. There is a location on the Stamford Canal which is similarly formed and has the same name.[3]

Tongue End falls within the drainage area of the Welland and Deepings Internal Drainage Board.[4] Gilbert Heathcote's tunnel drained into the Counter Drain nearby.

References

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Villages amongst 'The Deepings' in Lincolnshire and Northamptonshire

Market DeepingDeeping St JamesDeeping St NicholasDeeping GateWest Deeping

See also: StowgateFrognallTongue EndHop Pole