Tongue End Explained

Country:England
Coordinates:52.7537°N -0.2801°W
Official Name:Tongue End
Population:41
Civil Parish:Deeping St. Nicholas
Shire District:South Holland
Shire County:Lincolnshire
Region:East Midlands
Constituency Westminster:South Holland and The Deepings
Post Town:SPALDING
Postcode District:PE11
Postcode Area:PE
Dial Code:01775
Os Grid Reference:TF161187
London Distance Mi:90
London Direction:S

Tongue End is a small village in the South Holland district of Lincolnshire, England. It is situated 4miles east from Bourne and 6miles south-west from 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.[1] 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.

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: The villages around Bourne, Lincolnshire – Tongue End . https://web.archive.org/web/20081011130418/http://homepages.which.net/~rex/bourne/tongueend.htm . 11 October 2008 . Homepages.which.net . 11 October 2008.
  2. http://www.closedpubs.co.uk/lincolnshire/tongueend.html "Lost Pubs In Tongue End, Lincolnshire"
  3. http://www.eawa.co.uk/stamford.html "We think the confusion over just where the Stamford Canal starts and finishes can be overcome by our choosing our nomemclature more carefully"
  4. http://www.wellandidb.org.uk/about "The Welland & Deeping IDB"