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.