Tongue End
| Tongue End | |
| Lincolnshire | |
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| 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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("Wikimedia Commons" has material about Tongue End) |
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "The villages around Bourne, Lincolnshire, England - Tongue End", Homepages.which.net. Retrieved 12 October 2008
- ↑ "Lost Pubs In Tongue End, Lincolnshire", Closedpubs.co.uk
- ↑ "We think the confusion over just where the Stamford Canal starts and finishes can be overcome by our choosing our nomemclature more carefully", East Anglian Waterways Association
- ↑ "The Welland & Deeping IDB"
| Villages amongst 'The Deepings' in Lincolnshire and Northamptonshire |
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Market Deeping • Deeping St James • Deeping St Nicholas • Deeping Gate • West Deeping |
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See also: Stowgate • Frognall • Tongue End • Hop Pole |